Notes from the version control BOF at the summit
Florian Weimer
fw@deneb.enyo.de
Mon Jun 7 21:08:00 GMT 2004
* James A. Morrison:
>> The general belief is that developer machines are secure, while the
>> repository server is insecure. The primary cause for that belief is
>> that so far, we have no publicly documented case in which a developer
>> machine was compromised, but several high-profile cases which involve
>> repositories or distribution sites.
>
> I have no clue where this "general" belief came from, since more
> than one high-profile compromise that I can think of was the result
> of a developer's machine being compromised.
You are correct, I'm just trying to forget that Debian incident. 8->
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