FSF FTP Site Cracked, Looking for MD5 Sums

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.

Comments

Obg.

[Rosonowski]

"Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds

Re:Obg.

[nolife]

My thoughts exactly, recently I've been using P2P to backup my music files.

I have the files

[Zabu]

But do to some sort of wierd computer problem my machine keeps on restarting...


I will get around to fixing it sometime next week.

This is a conspiracy

[palad1]

When looking at the missing files: gnu/windows/emacs/21.2/leim-21.2-src.tar.gz gnu/windows/emacs/21.2/emacs-21.2-barebin-i386.tar .gz gnu/windows/emacs/21.2/emacs-21.2-bin-i386.tar.gz gnu/windows/emacs/21.2/emacs-21.2-fullbin-i386.tar .gz gnu/windows/emacs/21.2/emacs-21.2-leim.tar.gz gnu/windows/emacs/21.2/emacs-21.2-lisp.tar.gz gnu/windows/emacs/21.2/emacs-21.2-src.tar.gz gnu/windows/emacs/21.2/emacs-21.2-undumped-i386.ta r.gz

the list goes on abd on and...
now, grep for 'vi' : nothing, nada, null.

Of course, what do you think? This is a conspiracy orchestrated by VI lovers, to wipe out EMACS from the face of earth!

headline

[Lxy]

if you understand the headline

FSF FTP Site Cracked, Looking for MD5 Sums

You just might be a geek.

Re:headline

[wfberg]

if you understand the headline

FSF FTP Site Cracked, Looking for MD5 Sums

You just might be a geek.

The headline should have been simply

FSF ftp 0wn3d IM RMS teh md5sum's

Then the mainstream media would be all "OMFG WTF?! STFU /. I'm writing another MS Blaster story, bi0tch!"

Re:ouch, saw this yesterday

[gearheadsmp]

Look no further than across the pond, my friend! Faster downloads than iBiblio, and it's run by this guy. So dig in!

Re:the $64,000 question:

[hawkestein]

Or maybe, JUST FUCKING MAYBE , Linux isn't some sort of magical bug free OS where every buffer is checked, every race condition averted, and every service that runs on it is guaranteed bug free.

That would be OpenBSD. ;)

Re:the $64,000 question:

[Wuffle]

and patched August 31, 2003

I knew the open source community worked fast but that's just scary.