#1 2016-10-27 22:14:01

bobhund

Member

Registered: 2016-10-25

Posts: 67

security in debian when installing repositories etc.

I want to be able to watch some drm material. There seems to be quite a few ways to do it on bunsenlabs (debian). However I do not really understand the risk of the different ways, like for example this http://pipelight.net/cms/install/instal … ebian.html  or this http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=127574

Is there any place good to read about this, how to evaluate risk?

thanks.

stevep

MX Linux Developer

Registered: 2016-08-08

Posts: 381

Re: security in debian when installing repositories etc.

That's a trustworthy pipelight repository by the pipelight developers, and I have a pretty good reputation as a backports packager by now.  The libhal1-flash source in that OBS repository is straight from upstream Debian, so it's as trustworthy as they are.

Another recent development is that Firefox 49+ will ask to download and install a DRM plugin for HTML5 video if you go to a site such as Netflix--the plugin is still closed source like Flash, so we have a choice of two evils. The plugin hopefully will get security updates as necessary; perhaps it will help lead to the death of Flash at last.