On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:21:50 -0600 Bob Beck <[email protected]> wrote:

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>       Users are cautioned about rogue ftp sites claiming to have
> OpenBSD. 
>       The best place to get OpenBSD is from an official CD set,
> produced in a secured location
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>       It has come to our attention that some ftp sites
> (ftp.kd85.com) which are not official OpenBSD mirrors are purporting
> to serve OpenBSD 4.5 at this time. We have noted that what is
> actually present in the 4.5 directory is not 4.5, but rather a late
> development cycle snapshot which they have moved into place claiming
> it is 4.5. 
>       While we have no problem with anyone mirroring OpenBSD for
> the good of the user community, we do believe that people who offer
> up the wrong thing are being deceptive and will hurt the userbase -
> particularly when the packages being offered up are not the release
> versions. 
>       please ensure you look at http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html
> when choosing to do an ftp install, and don't be fooled by someone
> "phishing" for your ftp traffic.
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> 


Wow! The depths that these scumbags will go is amazing, but I kinda 
figured something might be wrong when I logged into FTP and saw:

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331 Guest login ok, send your email address as password.
230- 
230-       _____                 ____  _____  ____  __  _  _____ _____
230-      / ___ \               |  _ \|  ___|/ __ \| | / |/ ____|  ___|
230-     / /  / /___  ___  ____ | |_) | |_  | |  )_| |/ /| (___ | |_
230-    / /  / / __ \/ _ \/ __ \|  _ <| |_| | |  __| | <  \___ \| |_|
230-   / /__/ / /_/ /  __/ / / /| |_) | |___| |__) | |\ \ ____) | |___
230-   \_____/ .___/\___/_/ /_/ |____/|_____|\____/|_| \_|_____/|_____|
230-        /_/
230-  /  \          \          /\  \  The proactively insecure Anus-like
230- |   `.          |        | :   \ Orifice System.
230- `    |          |        | |   | Please visit the OpenBECKSE web site
230- \    | /    /  \\\       \  :  |   at http://www.openbeckse.org/
230-  `    \/  -~~      ~--__| \.'  |
230-  \    \-~        V     ~-_\|   / All transfers are logged, if you don't
230-   \_   \      _.-----.____\|   : like this policy, disconnect now!
230-    \    \____// _ __ (___  \   |
230-     \  .   __)_  ___ (_____ | /
230-      \ |    ___)/   \ (_____|_/  OpenBECKSE 4.5 is available for order!
230-      /\|   ____)    |  (___  /\  You can order a CD of OpenBECKSE from
230-     |  (   _____)\__/  // _/ / \ http://www.openbeckse.org/orders.html
230-     |   \  |_  \\______//(__/  | CD sales are important to support the
230-     |\   \___)  `--- --'       /|  continued development of the project.
230-     '._        _\    /_       _.'
230-      \         / |  | \        /
230-      |        | /    \ |       |  "Hearing him scream like a 
230-      :       / |     | \       :   little girl when he had to hack 
230-      |       :  \_/\_/ :       |   in NFS was priceless"  --phessler 
230-  VK. |       |   |  |  |       |
230- 
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
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-- 
J.C. Roberts

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