RE: GNU server "compromised"? Gimme a break!

"Joseph D. Wagner" <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:55:05 -0500
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-gcc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <000601c362bf$7eadc9a0$62a14943@joe>
I just think this goes a long way to say that GNU/Linux security sucks, the theory of a thousand eyes isn't true because the eyes aren't looking, GNU/Linux security sucks, FSF is administrated by incompetent boobs (notice that even their pre-hacked backups could be compromised -- um, "offsite backups" anyone?), GNU/Linux security sucks, auditing is non-existent because they can't tell who did what (they'd first need ACL's for this), GNU/Linux security sucks, backdoors can be in open source code, ... and did I mention that GNU/Linux security sucks?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott McCollum [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 5:14 PM
> To: Joseph D. Wagner; [email protected]
> Subject: GNU server "compromised"? Gimme a break!
> 
> http://www.internetnews.com/article.php/2248811
> 
> So the excuse is that the GNU/Linux servers holding source code for the
> Free Software Foundation was compromised will be how Stallman and his
> cronies explain the fact that SCO-owned intellectual property got onto
> their servers.
> 
> How crazy does it sound when you say this out loud: "A hacker broke into
> our open source servers and slipped proprietary code into the source code
> of GNU/Linux in an attempt to plant evidence to frame us"?
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