Around about 0939h 22/11/2003, Matthew Palmer emitted the following wisdom:
> Short answer, no, none of the packages have been compromised. Longer
> answer, All packages have MD5 sums, and those sums are signed by a GPG key
> stored offline. Those signatures and sums have been verified before the
> archive goes back online, and you can be sure that if any packages had been
> compromised the information would have gone public immediately.
Excellent. Brain was partially offline with this e-mail, post exam marking.
> Oddly enough, the compromise isn't listed on the News section at all.
> That's OK, slashdot has 553 comments, and I'm sure they're all constructive
> and factual, so there's no shortage of news about the event. <g>
Yes, I'm very curious to the particulars and slashdot contains more cruft about
the incident than any sane person would be willing to wade through.
IMHO, slashdot has lost it's edge and has become a haven for advocates of
various technological paradigms to bash each other over recent events.
Pete de Zwart.
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