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Debian bookworm live images now reproducible

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764 points bertman | 1 comments | 26 Mar 25 17:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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abdullahkhalids ◴[26 Mar 25 18:22 UTC] No.43485194[source]▶
Is the build infrastructure for Debian also reproducible? It seems like we if someone wants to inject malware in Debian package binaries (without injecting them into the source), they have to target the build infrastructure (compilers, linkers and whatever wrapper code is written around them).

Also, is someone else also compiling these images, so we have evidence that the Debian compiling servers were not compromised?

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layer8 ◴[26 Mar 25 18:58 UTC] No.43485619[source]▶
And what about the hardware on which the build runs? Is it reproducible? ;)
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1. abdullahkhalids ◴[26 Mar 25 19:41 UTC] No.43486241[source]▶
You are joking. But solving this problem is probably amongst the most important we can have in the information age we live in.

Every country in the world should have the capability of producing "good enough" hardware.