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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Should have been running a windows box by BurKaZoiD · 2004-03-23 10:54 · Score: 1, Funny

...woulda been uncrackable.

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Blame windows by superpulpsicle · 2004-03-23 10:54 · Score: 5, Funny

I guess the next version of longhorn will now look like GNOME.
1. Re:Blame windows by 11223 · 2004-03-23 11:02 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Imagine how damaging this could be if the intruders got the source code! Now Microsoft can view our source!
Ahh! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 10:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Damn you KDE zealots!! Let us have our release!
1. Re:Ahh! by useosx · 2004-03-23 11:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It's KDE terrorists, thank you.
2. Re:Ahh! by iminplaya · 2004-03-23 12:11 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Sorry. It's KDE freedom fighters
  
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Shouldn't that read... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 10:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Shouldn't that read Gnome.org Kompromised? No, no, that's KDE. It should read Gnome.org Gnompromised.
1. Re:Shouldn't that read... by FooAtWFU · 2004-03-23 11:12 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  No, if the KDE folks are behind it, as some have jokingly speculated, Kompromised would work. :)
  
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Hrmm by 222 · 2004-03-23 10:55 · Score: 2, Funny

This has got to be the work of those KDE bastards!
Sometimes acronyms are too much... by _Sharp'r_ · 2004-03-23 10:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Am I the only one who started picturing little lawn ornament men being caught in embarrassing positions?

Shades of Toy story....

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1. Re:Sometimes acronyms are too much... by budgenator · 2004-03-23 11:55 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  The biggest problem with these terrorist is that the "liberated" Gnome are throughly domesticated and unable to survive in the wild on their own. The police agencies frequently are reduced to holding the gnomes until their owners claim them in facilities unsuitable for the well-being of gnomes such as boxes kept in dark dusty evidence rooms. Many owners never claim them, dooming the gnomes to live out their live in pathetic gnome refugee camps.
  
  The Gnomes would be better served if the gnome liberation front meerly protested against the few owners who abuse their gnomes rather than trying to liberate gnomes from their love families.
  
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Re:I predict: by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 10:57 · Score: 1, Funny

I predict the Slashbots will overwhelmingly blame Microsoft, and all their posts will receive (+5 Insightful)
Just Wrong by SlydogSZ · 2004-03-23 10:59 · Score: 5, Funny

A Compromised Gnome. The image is just wrong.
Gnome 2.6 by potpie · 2004-03-23 10:59 · Score: 3, Funny

...Gnot today.

It's a bit disappointing that somebody was able to compromise their gnetwork, but i guess gno system can be comletely secure. I only hope people would stop putting G's in front of all the N words they use when they're talking about Gnome. It's getting on my gnerves.

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1. Re:Gnome 2.6 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 12:05 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Gnigga please!
bad for gnome by zoloto · 2004-03-23 10:59 · Score: 2, Funny

It may have been the GLF. They've been causing problems in europe..

Now the internet? Guess I'm not the only one waiting for the new release!

FREE THE GNOME!!!
Oh no!! by cluke · 2004-03-23 10:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Oh my God! I hope they didn't steal any source code!!
I can imagine. by LordK3nn3th · 2004-03-23 11:00 · Score: 3, Funny

MOHAWK DAN: LOL D00DS IM IN
sLiPkNoT696969: omg d00d hax0rs them
p1kap1ka: hahaha pwnage u go d00d what proxy r u using
MOHAWK DAN: WHATS A PROXY LOL
p1kap1ka: uh... it hikes ur ip
MOHAWK DAN: LOL WHATS AN IP TELL ME NOW THAT IM A HAX0R

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Oh Heavens ...! by psycho_tinman · 2004-03-23 11:01 · Score: 2, Funny

I hear these hackers are going to release the source
sorry wrong article by didjit · 2004-03-23 11:02 · Score: 3, Funny

Imagine a beowulf cluster of compromised gnome servers.
use the brain, luke! by Mr2cents · 2004-03-23 11:04 · Score: 2, Funny

Obviously, since gnome is a GNU/linux cornerstone, it must be coming from sco. Go get'em, feds!

(logic used: same as in "sco.com was attacked by a worm -> it must have been a linux fan")

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Re:I predict: by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 11:05 · Score: 1, Funny

I predict the slashbots will talk about the hypocrisy of slashbots.
Re:text copy by David+McBride · 2004-03-23 11:05 · Score: 1, Funny

23 March 2003

A year old?
Microsoft vs gnome.org by 0x0d0a · 2004-03-23 11:08 · Score: 5, Funny

When Microsoft undergoes a security breech, their source code spills out and leaks across the entire Internet.

When gnome.org undergoes a security breech, their source code is more *difficult* to get.

Fun, eh?

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Sorry guys by agent+dero · 2004-03-23 11:14 · Score: 5, Funny

My bad, won't happen again.

-KDE

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Yep, they shut down that 486/33 SX box... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 11:17 · Score: 1, Funny

...that was serving all 4 users of Gnome.
Re:Blame windows it already looks like Gnome by fforw · 2004-03-23 11:19 · Score: 3, Funny

so I followed your link..

ADODB.Parameter error '800a0d5d' Application uses a value of the wrong type for the current operation. E:\DATA\INETPUB\WWWROOT\NBR\HOME\../ inc/select_article.asp, line 9

guess next you'll tell us that ASP.NET is the better plattform for web services =)
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gnowned! by straponego · 2004-03-23 11:26 · Score: 4, Funny

...sorry.
Traced the break-in by rixstep · 2004-03-23 11:33 · Score: 1, Funny

Hi,

I represent a security company who were asked to analyse the logs on the compromised system. All the originating IPs point to a place called Lindon, Utah in the US.

Anyone know what that means?
Lucky Anyhow... by oacis · 2004-03-23 11:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Lucky anyhow that the server is unavailable 'before' it got slashdotted.

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Just to be fair... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 11:54 · Score: 1, Funny

Of course we want to be fair... let's blame SCO!
Re:Windows joke by aardvarkjoe · 2004-03-23 12:38 · Score: 4, Funny

Any pro-MS response seems to get modded up without consideration of merit

You have got to be kidding me. I'm in full agreement that unworthy posts are modded up all the time, but if you think that there is an overall pro-Microsoft bias, you must either be blind or you bought your impressive UID and posting history off of somebody else.

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Forget to pay SCO ? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-23 13:03 · Score: 1, Funny

$699 license fee for "Linux" IP
+ * Copyright 2002,2003,2004 SCO by openmtl · 2004-03-23 13:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Ah, so thats what all those
+ /* Copyright 2002,2003,2004 (C) SCO */

were when I did a cvs diff last !

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Re:Windows joke by LittleBigLui · 2004-03-23 21:29 · Score: 2, Funny

Idiots using the word forced it to become a word in the dictionary.

How do you think new words get introduced into a language? Does god hand them down from heaven? Are they discovered by wordologists in the sands of the sahara desert? Are they invented by licensed WordInventors in top-secret high-tech laboratories?

Or are they created by people just starting to use them?

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Obvious by pxnoll · 2004-03-23 21:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Isn't it pretty obvious that they're pulling a Valve(tm) ? ;/