The Fedora-Red Hat Crisis

jammag writes "When Linux journalist Bruce Byfield tried to dig for details about the security breach in Fedora's servers, a Red Hat publicist told him the official statement — written in non-informative corporate-speak — was all he would get. In the wake of Red Hat's tight-lipped handling of the breach, even Fedora's board was unhappy, as Byfield details. He concludes: 'If Red Hat, one of the epitomes of a successful FOSS-based business, can ignore FOSS when to do so is corporately convenient, then what chance do we have that other companies — especially publicly-traded ones — will act any better?'"

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Re:Consider Red Hat's response vs. Debian's

[Enleth]

basically Debian only discovered their systems were compromised by dumb luck and simplistic checks.

Isn't that how you find security breaches? I mean, using, er "simplistic" checks, that aren't in fact that simplistic because they perform an extensive comparison of lots and lots of little details?

Oh, I know - you don't do any integrity checks because you are *absolutely sure* no one would break into your servers, right? Well, that's an interesting approach to security, indeed. It's a pity it won't actually work.

Nice trolling, but generalizations, "ad hominem" arguments, insults and Red Hat zealotry pretty much uncover it. Go away, troll. Shooo.

Disclaimer: no, I'm not a Debian user. In fact, I don't like using Debian at all because of the dpkg and its frontends, there's not a single one that suited me.