ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD?

2003-08-14 Thread Martin
http://ftp.gnu.org/MISSING-FILES.README They are still checking the archives and the available checksums. It seems that the sources have not been modified. FreeBSD contains some GNU software. How is it handled when foreign sources are imported? I just want to know to sleep better this

Re: ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD?

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Heath
Lucas Holt wrote: Are you sure it was a guy? Male hackers usually aren't that patient. you can blame my drama teacher for that one, she used to use it in a gender free sense and it's stuck with me I doubt the source was altered anyway. Someone would have caught it by now.. they did when

Re: ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD?

2003-08-14 Thread Lucas Holt
Are you sure it was a guy? Male hackers usually aren't that patient. I doubt the source was altered anyway. Someone would have caught it by now.. they did when apache.org was attacked through their database server a few years back. On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 06:04 PM, Matt Heath

Re: ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD?

2003-08-14 Thread Mykroft Holmes IV
Matt Heath wrote: I doubt it too and it wouldn't be too difficult to spot, IF THEY HAD BACKUPS!!! They had backups. However the servers have been owned since mid-march. The backups could be comprimized. So they took down anything uploaded since March 17, until they can verify those files.

Re: ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD?

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 3:50 PM Subject: ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD? http://ftp.gnu.org/MISSING-FILES.README They are still checking the archives and the available

Re: ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD?

2003-08-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:50:41PM +0200, Martin wrote: http://ftp.gnu.org/MISSING-FILES.README They are still checking the archives and the available checksums. It seems that the sources have not been modified. FreeBSD contains some GNU software. How is it handled when foreign sources

Re: ftp.gnu.org got cracked... how does this affect FreeBSD?

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Heath
So far there's no evidence that any distfiles were compromised. For files in the ports collection, they would have been caught by the md5 checksum. I wouldn't be so sure, the guy was harvesting passwords. Although I don't know the details of the commit procedure he would surely be able to