Re: debian.org/CD/vendors/ "Dominique E. Blake-Hofer" entry is now squatted adware; other vendors 404; some ship buster or stretch

Laura Arjona Reina <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello наб, thanks for your report.
I've acted partially on it and leave the rest to the CD Vendors subteam 
([email protected], in CC) so they can contact the vendors or 
procedure as they see appropiate. (I continue inline).

El 20/6/23 a las 17:57, наб escribió:
> Hi!
> 
> On https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/,
> the swiss vendor "Dominique E. Blake-Hofer" links to
>    https://blake-hofer.net/?post_type=product
> however https://www.blake-hofer.net/ appears to be a blank ad site
> "Made in RapidWeaver" with lorem ipsum articles.
> 
> By bisecting http://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/blake-hofer.net,
> I found that this has been the state of affairs at /least/ since
> October 28, 2018 when the title changes from "IT Dientsleistungen,
> Wordpress Projekte, Webhosting" to "Meditation & Yoga Studio"
> (and redirects).
> 

I have hidden this vendor, the change will be online in the next hours.

> In an unrelated vein, a significant proportion of the vendors I
> clicked through on the site offer CDs up to buster at most:
>    Linux2u                              buster
>    PM Consultores Ltda                  i think stretch, but on loading it again to
>                                         re-check the website broke
>    Toko Baliwae - Tokonya Maniak Linux  buster
>    Dr. Hinner EDV                       buster for french and english customers, but
>                                         bookworm for germans
>    Debianland.de                        buster
>    Stormfront Ventures                  buster
>    lavorato IT                          stretch!
> (I didn't include the ones that offer up to bullseye or ones that don't
>   say what version is offered in this list).
> 

I leave this to the CD Vendors subteam.

> Additionally:
>    De Linuxspecialist 403s.
> 

I have update the links with their https version, the change will be 
online in the next hours.

>    Onyx Dragon 404s.
> 
>    vianos webdesign errored and gave me
>      Firefox Developer Edition does not trust this site because it uses a
>      certificate that is not valid for www.vianos.de. The certificate is
>      only valid for the following names: *.kasserver.com, kasserver.com
> 
>    Linux-Onlineshop redirects to https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/ and
>    searching "debian" there gave me nothing. Can't decide if this is
>    just adware.
> 
>    Hudson Oliveira redirected me to https://corsario.webs.com/,
>    half the site didn't load, and there's a "Create a Free Website"
>    thing injected in the bottom left corner for webs.com;
>    I'd maybe ask Hudson if that site is still accurate.
> 

I leave these to the CD Vendors subteam.

Kind regards,
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