Intrusion Cleanup Forces Delay For GNOME 2.6 170
An anonymous reader writes "Looks like the GNOME site (both web and FTP) is back up and running again (from a replacement system). The restoration work is still going on, and dynamic content does not work yet. Bugzilla should be up by tomorrow (it is already in testing mode). More details are available in this announcement. Kudos to the GNOME sysadmin team for such a rapid recovery." However, blurzero writes "GNOME 2.6 was scheduled to be released sometime today, however after evidence of possible intrusion on the web server, the release has been delayed by one week, until March 31st." Update: 03/24 14:08 GMT by T : An anonymous reader points to this story on the delay at ZD Net Australia.
Half-Life 2, anyone? (Score:0, Funny)
Dammit... (Score:3, Funny)
Boy, that was a close call (Score:5, Funny)
"GNOME 2.6 was scheduled to be released sometime today, however after evidence of possible intrusion on the web server, the release has been delayed by one week, until March 31st."
That could have been disasterous had they been forced to delay until April 1. Imagine all the jokes that would have ensued.
Running IIS? (Score:2, Funny)
Deja Vu (Score:5, Funny)
I bet in a week the source code for GNOME 2.6 will be all over the Internet, free for anyone to take, read, and use!
Re:Dumb Cracker? (Score:2, Funny)
They meant a white guy from Alabama - he was looking for 'gnome-porn'. ?!
Don't look at the source! (Score:1, Funny)
nevermind.
Gnome website hosted on IIS server? (Score:2, Funny)
Something's not right here. Does this mean that the Gnome website is hosted on an IIS webserver? I mean, we all know that only IIS servers are insecure.
Or could it be that system security depends more on diligent admins than software?
Re:Dumb Cracker? (Score:2, Funny)
So the dumb cracker was really a smart cookie?
Impatient bastard! (Score:2, Funny)
Probably a SCO advocate (Score:3, Funny)
This sort of thing is exactly what I'd expect from freedom-hating closed-source advocates. No doubt, some SCO fan went and did this in retaliation for the Linux developers' attempts to preserve their intellectual property rights.
There is a dark side of the commercial software community and now we are beginning to see it emerge.
(Warning: this article contains sarcasm.)