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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. I can't be the only one who saw this coming... by damn_registrars · · Score: 4, Insightful
    On Friday I suggested that it was highly likely we would see this:

    I expect some people are trying to figure out a way to install another OS on top of (or somehow in place of) Arch Linux.

    And I suspect others saw this as coming as well. I will say though, I see gentoo as being somewhat snippy and uninspired for this. I would have been really impressed had they managed to install OS X or Windows through this manner (likely the only time in my life I've said that about the latter).

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  2. I'm torn on this. by MAXOMENOS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    On the one hand, I'm not fond of black hats. On the other, that's really, really funny.

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  3. What language is this written in? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is painful to read. Are the moderators sleeping?