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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by joosters on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:27AM (#9303796)
You can't trust anybody except for open source repositories.

Like Sourceforge? http://blog.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sour...

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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by jacquesm on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:35AM (#9303885)
Ah yes sourceforge. How far the mighty have fallen.
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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by DannyBee on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:57AM (#9304113)
Sourceforge was doing this on like day 3, so i'm not sure they fell that far?
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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by jacquesm on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @11:01AM (#9304152)
They were pretty good for years, I'm not sure where you got your 'day 3' reference from but I was an early sourceforge user and they were pretty much like github today in terms of reputation.

Then times got tough and sourceforge sold to new owners and that's when the trouble started.

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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by dec0dedab0de on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @11:05AM (#9304194)
There was a time where I would tell friends, family, and clients that the top sourceforge projects were the only safe things to download on the internet.
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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by keithpeter on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @12:56PM (#9305022)
I read the gp comment as something like a distribution repository. Apt-get or perhaps like brew on Mac OS and so on. Checksummed binaries and a single source for each machine.
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