2026-10-24 19:29 UTC
I feel like your threat model is not realistic. It is way more likely that you will be running malicious and/or vulnerable code that was packaged appropriately by the actual package maintainer than for a CA compromise to allow an attacker to inject a malicious package during a MITM attack while retrieving an OCI image from a container repository.
Like, yes, you shouldn’t 100% trust your ISP or your DNS server, but if you’re that paranoid, you shouldn’t trust your distro’s repository either. You should be building everything from source.
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@moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 2026-10-26 03:13
MITM attacks happen all the time. As are there a ton of historical cases of CA compromise. I can’t think of a time that a Debian maintainer went rogue and put something malicious into the official repos. And, if they did, everyone would see it. But MITM attacks are not publicly visible because they’re targeted.