Thread: New firmware released! Minor update PR1.0.1 needed for upcoming PR1.1
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-01-11 , 10:44
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#206
Originally Posted by starman View Post
all joking aside about apple and htc, is this even possible??

could a virus writer (or some such *****) install a program into the repos and try to mimic an official update? Holy Cow thats scary
They could install something in a non-standard repos, or possibly the -devel repos (I'm not sure what checks, if any, are done there), but not in one of the official repositories (without hacking in anyway). Whether the N900 will install firmware updates from these repositories or not I don't know (firmware updates may even have to be signed).