Re: [Trisquel-users] Spam attack

[dguthrie]

Mint got hacked because it was low-hanging fruit for nefarious types. They  
did not make it easy to verify GPG signatures or encourage people to, and the  
key wasn't in the web of trust. They did not update WordPress or their server  
software. They also create a mess of free and nonfree packages, so to stop  
things breaking they held back security updates from the repositories, and  
did not issue security disclosures. They did not have the resources to have  
their own distribution. They should have just produced packages for  
distributions.
It was their own idiocy.
This spam was just spam. Unrelated.