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

Oh my God! I hope they didn't steal any source code!!
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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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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