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From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 12:25:26AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> Had debsums told me that /bin/bash was modified I would have been quite 
> convinced.
> 

Keep in mind that debsums is trivially easy to circument.  That just
checks against an md5 checksum stored in a text file in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums.  If someone modified /bin/bash it would
easy enough for them to modify the relevant md5sums file.

     	    	     	       	   	    - Ted