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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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.
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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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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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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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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sorry wrong article by didjit · 2004-03-23 11:02 · Score: 3, Funny

Imagine a beowulf cluster of compromised gnome servers.
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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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.
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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