Non-commercial redistributable game data

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 05/17/2010 03:00 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/17/2010 06:24 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>
>>> downloads and verifies them.
>>>
>> Can you explain how?  Autodownloader has a hash of the files that it
>> $HOME == automated arbitrary access to arbitrary user data == arbirary
>> option to install maliculous programs (viruses, spyware etc.).
>
> It is not arbitrary and the user is prompted to download the data.  The
> data is verified against a hash.
You mean the forged hash, referring to the self-modifiying data inside.

>  Did you even try out autodownloader
> and understand how it works?  Doesn't seem like it at all.
No, I haven't, and I certainly will not try it.

>  I highly recommend doing that.
I highly recommend people to package packages into rpms on rpm-based 
distros instead of trying to out-smart themselves (which is what I fell 
currently is happening).