[Haskell-cafe] GHC 7.6.3 (and others) hashes

[Carter Schonwald]

mind you, even if haskell industrial usage grows, I hope we continue to
grow our security in infrastructure to ensure that such attacks are never
viable! :)


On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Carter Schonwald <
carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:

> the day that ghc binaries are MITM'd is the day we've failed to avoid
> success :)
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 01:11:53AM -0500, Carter Schonwald wrote:
>> > just dl and hash it.
>>
>> Yes, to ensure it's the exact same trojan you install on all your
>> machines ;)
>>
>> /M
>>
>> --
>> Magnus Therning                      OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4
>> email: magnus at therning.org   jabber: magnus at therning.org
>> twitter: magthe               http://therning.org/magnus
>>
>> The results point out the fragility of programmer expertise: advanced
>> programmers have strong expectations about what programs should look like,
>> and when those expectations are violated--in seemingly innocuous
>> ways--their performance drops drastically.
>>      -- Elliot Soloway and Kate Ehrlich
>>
>
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