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Ubuntu Servers Hacked
An anonymous reader noted that "Ubuntu had to shutdown 5 of 8 production servers that are sponsored by Canonical, when they started attacking other systems. Canonical blames the community, saying they were community hosted, and were poorly maintained. However, kernel upgrades couldn't be done because of poor backwards compatibility with the very hardware that Canonical had sponsored! While people point fingers at each other it is pretty clear that both sides are equally to blame, the community administrators for practicing bad security practices, such as using unencrypted FTP transfers with accounts, not properly maintaining the system. However Canonical should have been well aware of what they are hosting. The question remains, if any of the files distributed to users have been compromised. A major blow for Canonical though who are attempting to enter the business market with Ubuntu Server."
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
This is just a transitional feature designed to make Windows users more comfortable using Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu made a boobootu
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It's like NT all over again. God only knows what bad things they can do with that.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Linux systems are only as secure as the admins who manage them.
:)
And for bonus "hate" points, even MS servers can be secure if they are admined probably. Don't worry though, I have my flame suit on.
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
Well, if they _did_ get broken into all the time, then that would be pretty embarrassing. The last thing they would want to do is publicize the fact, so it only makes sense that they would cover it up and say nothing about it.
Since nobody has _ever_ said anything about frequent break-ins, it's clear that they must be happening.
Why am I the only person who can see how obvious this is?
Maybe they should've been running deb stable. ;)
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"Ubuntu had to shutdown 5 of 8 production servers that are sponsored by Canonical, when they started attacking other systems."
In Soviet Russia, server attack you?
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And to think, the only reason I post here is so I can be taken seriously by the people who really count.
Another dream shattered!
Well, I heard that Ubuntu isn't very good at that either...
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