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
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
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
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.
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
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
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