On 9 December 2013 15:35, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Drak <drak@zikula.org> wrote:

IMO, to avoid that, no files should be placed online unless they are the official release.

They *are* the official release as soon as they're uploaded. We may wait for some extra gitian builds to be more confident and make the announcement on the forums and such, but the downloads themselves don't change anymore.

That is exactly the point and the moment they are publicly available you cannot stop people talking about it or noticing it, or posting official looking sticky posts at bitcointalk like this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=364353.0. Was that an official announcement?

Drak