FSF FTP Site Cracked, Looking for MD5 Sums

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 13, 2003 @04:29AM from the two-scoops-of-paranoia dept.

landley writes "The Free Software Foundation's FTP site at ftp.gnu.org has been "compromised", and they don't seem to have full backups. They've yanked a bunch of recent packages (and their whole alpha.gnu.org ftp site), and when I asked about it they responded 'Our FTP server was compromised, yes. We are beginning to find good MD5sums for files which have not yet been restored, and they will be available again Real Soon Now. If you can provide MD5sums for any of the files listed in MISSING-FILES, it would be very much appreciated.' " Update the FSF has a statement on the FTP site explaining the matter.

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I bet SCO knows something about this.. by dBLiSS · 2003-08-13 04:45 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Just yesterday there was a story runnign about FSF talking about pulling SCO support. I bet the slick SCO fellahs had nothing to do with this...

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Re:Wait? I thought Linux was Secure?? by rute20740 · 2003-08-13 04:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Ahem... I believe we should be blaming this on third party software right? Tell me if I'm wrong :)
Re:Finnishing move by pimpinmonk · 2003-08-13 05:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Say it with me now...

F A T A L I T Y !

Wha? The lameness filter wouldn't let me use caps, so let's all pretend. Wait, maybe that my post length is longer the caps/total characters ratio will be good enough?