#214: Package security ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: miscellaneous | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: project(> week) Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): Replying to [comment:10 guest]:
I worry about the idea of providing "security" or some notion of safety or trust only if one behaves "as expected". That seems slightly odd to me.
I think it's really essential. You are expecting for some reason that something on hackage is held to a higher security or QA standard than something else you randomly download off the web. What gives you that confidence? What makes you think other users have that confidence? Perhaps that's the security problem. There's no security problem with `132.73.41.22/hax0r.sh` because there's no reason you would expect to trust it. As I said, a name can establish a reputation so there is value in preventing well known names from being subverted. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/214#comment:14 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects