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

Matt Heath matt at thebigchoice.com
Thu Aug 14 00:46:53 PDT 2003


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 apache.org was attacked through their database 
> server a few years back.

I doubt it too and it wouldn't be too difficult to spot, IF THEY HAD 
BACKUPS!!!

and I think that is the most embarassing aspect of all.



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