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Re:Canonical Ltd source code repositories have been compromised by quaquaqua1 on Saturday July 06, 2019 @06:22PM (#20372381)
Ironically I only use Ubuntu in a sandboxed environment, fresh install every time. I run apt get update and dont do any personal info stuff on it.

This is out of sheer laziness because a USB stick is easier to plug in than Sata. Today I learned it is now has security features as well :)

Canonical is a great thing in my life. Hope they haven't been hit too hard and that they learn how to prevent it.

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Re:Canonical Ltd source code repositories have been compromised by yani on Sunday July 07, 2019 @01:09AM (#20373655)
I do not see how this will make you safer than running the distro from a disk drive. I believe you are at a higher risk than others because you are running apt update on every boot and thats how you would get infected if launchpad was compromised - but it is not.
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