Gene Heskett wrote: >> Sourceforge provide a web interface to manage my own ssh keys along with a >> number of other services should I wish to use them. So why the hell should I >> submit keys to an untrusted third party when I can use the SF web interface. >> >> Bottom line - I do NOT trust the system that currently hosts the repository. > > Humph, its probably safer than sourceforge ever was. AND IT WORKS, which is > a > hell of a lot more than I can say for sourceforge.
Due to the sheer volume of activity on SF, there WAS a problem for a while, which SF was actively working to fix and currently there is no problem that I know of with CVS or SVN hosting on SF and it's distribution service *IS* the best available. A large number of people did jump ship, which probably helped SF get things back under control, and while some of the services provided are simply annoying, the distributed nature of SF means that is probably the most stable provider today. If someone decided that linuxcnc.org was ripe for a sustained attack then it would not be able to cope, and would become unusable. Unlikely you might say, but hackers have been picking on sites simply for the fun of putting things off line, so linuxcnc.org is a single point that could easily be taken down. So while a switch may have seemed appropriate at the time, personally I think it was probably premature and like Paul - I am unwilling to manually submit keys to a site which requests them via email. So I will remain a lurker rather than becoming more actively involved. It would be interesting to know how many others feel the same? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk MEDW - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
