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Savannah Back Online With Extra Security
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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On yet another slashdot posting with absolutely zero informative content (except possibly to people who already knew what the article meant).
What is Savahna?
Why was it not online?
Why should I care?
Where's the rocketpacks? We were promised rocketpacks...
You can't take the sky from me...
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.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
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.