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by leni536 2902 days ago
The most worrisome on that page is the arbitrary package attack, and on my Debian installation it's not feasible. The insecure apt.conf settings are not enabled on Debian by default. Saying that the package signing of apt is absolutely ineffective is dishonest.

Note that metadata signing in apt is just indirect package signing. The package sha256 sums are part of the metadata. It looks like that dpkg too have support for package signing, but at that point it would be redundant.