Gnome.org Compromised?

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Posted by michael on Tuesday March 23, 2004 @10:53AM from the somebody-needs-to-get-stomped dept.

Garden GNOME writes "The GNOME sysadmin team has just announced that the main GNOME web server has probably been intruded into, leading to the shutdown of the GNOME website, (including bugzilla.gnome.org, art.gnome.org and developer.gnome.org). The GNOME mailing lists, and CVS servers seem to be up, though the FTP server was immediately taken down as a precautionary measure (released sources are believed to be intact). This is bad, because GNOME 2.6 was supposed to be released tomorrow. Let's hope it is a false alarm."

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Another Debian Hole? by Space_Soldier · 2004-03-23 10:56 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I wonder if they are running a Debian based or Debian itself, and Debian has another hole in it.
To date by ObviousGuy · 2004-03-23 10:56 · Score: -1, Flamebait

KDE servers not compromised.

Maybe it's a security flaw in Gnome?

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Remember... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 10:58 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Windows server compromised = Microsoft fault

Linux server compromised = Admin fault.
Another proof Linux is insecure by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 11:03 · Score: -1, Flamebait

This is just another good example that proves the fact that Linux is actually more insecure than Windows. Munich has to spend lots of money just to make Linux as secure as Windows.
I've only got one question... by Caedar · 2004-03-23 11:06 · Score: 0, Flamebait

How can we pin the blame on Microsoft? Dooooo +p.
THANK YOU UNLICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 11:31 · Score: -1, Flamebait

so the my.Doom virus was written because it "can". back to school for you, fucktard.
Re:Blame windows it already looks like Gnome by weorthe · 2004-03-23 14:17 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The other difference is your windows PC came full of adware and spyware and crippleware.

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Re:Windows joke by Xabraxas · 2004-03-23 15:44 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Except the definition is wrong because it is also based on popular culture. Fishes is in the dictionary too but it's not really a fucking word. Idiots using the word forced it to become a word in the dictionary.

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Re:Blame windows it already looks like Gnome by Aardpig · 2004-03-23 15:54 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I doubt Microsoft even included it's other product lines in those security alerts their counting.

The possessive form of "it" is "its"; "it's" is a contraction of "it is". Dipshit.

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Re:Should have been running a windows box by pAnkRat · 2004-03-23 18:41 · Score: 0, Flamebait

uncrackable my ass....

Why for pete's sake are they still using FTP?
This is plain dumb.

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Re:More info by alex_tibbles · 2004-03-23 23:28 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I do not read Welsh. I looked at your diary and thought "Aha! Google translation will help". Oh no it doesn't. I think that either the english on the page tricks it, or perhaps the meta-data DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN", too? Of course, google translation may not support Welsh.

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Re:Windows joke by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-24 12:33 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Learn to use a thesaurus so people can understand you.

Are you too elistist to use an understandable synonym such as dishonest or untruthful?