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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.
...if this was a site hosted on IIS, then we would already be flooded with posts laughing at how insecure M$ systems are and gloating how this doesn't happen with open source systems.
Yet here we have a site which one woudl have expected to be rather well secured, and it's been cracked.
I guess that blows the "Apache is absolutely secure" myth.
People should not be afraid of their governments - Governments should be afraid of their people.
5. "Free Software Foundation did not make Linux"
4. "AaAAAAAaaaAAAAAaaAAA!"
3. Discuss technical issues regarding backups, effectively ignoring that the #1 Property Of Stallman Approved server was violated and disgraced
2. "Windows Still Sucks"
1. Tell everyone that Gates did it by selling hardware with built-in security flaws to the FSF through clandestine channels, going all the way up to You Know Who
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?
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
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Okay, here we are, alt dot nerd dot obsessive.
YOu sir are a compleat asshole. So what if the person was making a calculated slight at Windows NT? It IS a crappier and less secure OS than Linux. So what if they were taking pride in the fact that the Linux OS is truly superior when it comes to security. This exploit will likely turn out to be something rathre minor and no glaring blot on the shine of the Linux OS. Yes sir, you are a compleat and total asshole. Fuck off and die now bitch.
This is the sword of Damocles. I was a fanatic supporter of Linux , but this is too much for me. And al the SCO shit. I think de Open Source Goeroes are technical not so good as I thought, since this is the site of mr stallmann himself. I think de Unix technolgy is a lost path. I remember only quarrels in history. And is stays the same SCo only accelerated the process of downunder of Unix and Linux Gnu is helping with
Stallman is a poor sad fellow, not a sysadmin. Let him rest in his own stupid dreams.
It was me.
Love,
Eric S. Raymond
Haha! I love to hear about leftists forced to live with the results of their own delusional belief systems.
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