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.

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Re:Wait? I thought Linux was Secure??

[FortKnox]

I'd like to thank every single reply to my parent comment!

You truely help make the only true point I was trying to make. It doesn't matter if this was a hole built into the kernel that was the size of Texas, the fact that it happened on Linux will be downplayed and if the slightest thing happens on windows you blow up on it. The poll running right now (worst zealot) is pretty pertinant to this conversation, isn't it?