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Savannah Back Online With Extra Security

Posted by michael on from the beefed-up dept.

depesz writes "As we can read here, savannah is back online. After several weeks of downtime, all security problems are resolved, and the service is again operational."

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  1. Congratulations by xyzzy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On yet another slashdot posting with absolutely zero informative content (except possibly to people who already knew what the article meant).

  2. Questions by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is Savahna?
    Why was it not online?
    Why should I care?
    Where's the rocketpacks? We were promised rocketpacks...

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    You can't take the sky from me...

  3. Thanks GNU we love YOU by after · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Awesome.

    Although, I wish Savannah had some sort of system where I could do installation of software similar in the way that FreeBSD does: the ports collection.

    There are a lot of cool program there that I use daily, and I would like to have them all upgraded and manageable through a simple collection of applications (like the package managers for the ports collection.)

    Either way, manager or no manager, there are some applications that I wanted to go get so Ill go do that now.

    Thanks GNU we love YOU.

  4. All security problems? by cperciva · · Score: 2, Insightful

    all security problems are resolved

    I rather doubt that. Perhaps all security problems of which the server administrators are aware have been resolved, but there are definitely going to be other security problems left.

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    Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
  5. Totally fixed! by fm6 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ... all security problems are resolved ...
    That's the kind of sloppy thinking that got them in trouble in the first place. Try, "all known security problems are resolved"!!!
  6. Re:Obvious enough by GoofyBoy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. What is Savannah?
    2. What was the security problems?
    3. Why should I or Developers care about this?
    4. Why was it down for several weeks?

    Not something that can be answered with moving a mouse around and 1/2 a second.

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    The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
  7. Re:What took them so long? by Mr.Ned · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Debian people, no slouches, didn't notice right away, and may not have if there hardware didn't react poorly to the rootkit. The Gentoo compromise was on a completely different scale - to restore the computer to working order, they just plowed the hard drive, reinstalled, and then copied the data from other mirrors. Unfortunately, this is not so easy for Savannah - they host a lot of projects and aren't just running rsync. Savannah wasn't just another mirror, it was the central repository.