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Botnet Takes Over Twitch Install and Partially Installs Gentoo

Posted by timothy on from the nerd-rage-best-kind-of-rage dept.

WarJolt writes: The plug was pulled on the attempt to crowd-source an Arch Linux install after a botnet threatened to take over the process. Twitch Installs has been rebooted by the twitchintheshell community and Twitch Installs users managed to reinstall Arch only to be thwarted by the botnet. The botnet managed to partially install Gentoo. Users are currently in the process of reinstalling Arch.

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  1. Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by stephanruby · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would have been really impressed had they managed to install OS X or Windows through this manner.

    They probably didn't want to be classified as malicious.

  2. Where do I find this botnet? by whoever57 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a partial install of Gentoo that I need to work on. The first clean Gentoo install that I have done for almost a decade.

    How can I get this botnet to finish the job?

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  3. Re:I'm torn on this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's SchrÃdinger Linux.
    It installs both Gentoo and Arch into a superpartition.

  4. Heh heh by cfalcon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder what plot will next.... emerge?

    Sorry.

  5. Re:I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by Provocateur · · Score: 2, Funny

    Luckily you can upgrade back to Windows 7

    You know we're a long long way from Mars when the future of computing technology is summarized like that, right there

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