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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by jfuhrman on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @11:29AM (#9304361)
Open source isn't some magical protection. Even with being a much smaller target, there have been malware on Linux repos.

Example on Gentoo(ignore the over the top headline):

http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-infection-proves-windows-...

Not to mention that the repos themselves have been having security issues over the years.

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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by makomk on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @04:01PM (#9306423)
Gentoo systems refused to accept the backdoored source code because the SHA1 hash no longer matched - that's how the backdoor was discovered in the first place.
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Re:Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors... by Sir_Cmpwn on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @02:54PM (#9305926)
Gentoo is hardly a server-ready operating system. Find similar stories on Debian or CentOS instead?
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