Can I trust repositories

Question

How can I trust any Repositories like

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/tor

or

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wagungs/Kali-linux

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 05 '14 at 14:29

7

You can trust them as much as you trust the people who put them up. Anyone can put up a PPA; a repository owned by some random user is obviously less trustworthy than the official LibreOffice PPA, for example.

answered Aug 05 '14 at 14:29

evilsoup

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 05 '14 at 14:19

2

Good question. The short answer is: you can't trust them.

answered Aug 05 '14 at 14:19

Can I trust repositories

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