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OpenSSH Turns Five Years Old

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the edoc-eht-kaerb dept.

heydrick writes "The OpenSSH project is five years old. Project member Damien Miller writes, 'Five years ago, in late September 1999, the OpenSSH project was started. It began with an audit, cleanup and update of the last free version of Tatu Ylonen's legacy ssh-1.2.12 code. The project quickly gathered pace, attracting a portability effort and, in early 2000, an independent implementation of version 2 of the SSH protocol. Since then, OpenSSH has led in the implementation of proactive security techniques such as privilege separation & auto-reexecution.' Yaa for OpenSSH."

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  1. hmmmm... by BungoMan85 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone else notice how broken /. has been lately? Maybe it's just a false impression I'm getting based on a few incidents, or maybe I just notice it now. But it seems there's been a lot more duped stories, bot floods of comments, and entire discussions over mod points compared to even a month or two ago.

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    1. Re:hmmmm... by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I noticed this as well, and put a note about it into the slash bug thingy. I was told slash was under crapflood attack.
      A couple of days later, the Captcha image things were put in, and it all stopped for a while.
      Now because of issues with the Captcha (other slash bug notices), they have apparantly been removed again, and the problem has come back...

      Its disconcerting to see comments and replies posted about stories you read earlier in the day.
      So much so, it felt more like a DB corruption than an attack, but since we must believe our slash gods, and since they appeared to stop with the Captchas, I would assume they know more than us :)

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  2. I've been SSHGuru for 13 years by SSHGuru · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Should I sue them for violating my stock service called SSHGuru(dot)com?

  3. We need a general forum by jpardey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If there was a general forum with no topic, then complaints could be discussed. Of course, then people could also complain about specific editors...

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    1. Re:We need a general forum by drsmack1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Are you saying that the only thing that cannot be discussed on slashdot is slashdot?

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