RPM security (a newbie question)

["Stanisław T. Findeisen"]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Probably there are lots of packages reviewed by their authors only?
> 
> Review and signing are two different processes. Every single new package
> has to go through a review process as outlined in
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines
> 
> Signing a package is done by a small number of people in the release
> engineering team and they do that manually before pushing it into the
> repositories.

Well, it looks that those "review guidelines" cover mostly 
administrative/legal issues. It looks that no one cares about the source 
code.

So it looks that it's quite possible to have a lot of trojan 
horses/rootkits/whatever in the distribution tree.

To get rid of it, we would have to review the source code.

STF

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