[Squeakfoundation]Squeak downloads

Michael Rueger m.rueger at acm.org
Thu Jun 19 22:57:01 CEST 2003


Mark A. Schwenk wrote:

> I like the idea of making the download page easily editable and actually
> favor the whole squeak.org being a swiki that was easily editable by the
> appropriate people.
> 
> I have concerns about security, though. With the current minnow swiki
> setup, it seems pretty easy for someone to upload files or change
> download page links to Trojan versions of the software. What can we do
> to ensure the integrity of the links and the files to the official
> distributions?

Very good point! An alternative, and also my first thought on this 
before Andreas convinced me about the advantages of having this on the 
Squeak swiki, was to put the download page on an easy accessible server, 
e.g. squeakfoundation.org, so a number of guides etc would have access 
rights.

Or is there another way we can have our cake and eat it?

The method of dealing with mp3 and graffiti would not apply here, a 
single trojan download would be a desaster!

Michael




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