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Wednesday, August 13, 2003

FSF FTP Site Cracked, Looking for MD5 Sums

FSF FTP Site Cracked, Looking for MD5 Sums

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 13, @12:29PM
from the two-scoops-of-paranoia dept.
landley writes "The Free Software Foundation's FTP site at ftp.gnu.org has been "compromised", and they don't seem to have full backups. They've yanked a bunch of recent packages (and their whole alpha.gnu.org ftp site), and when I asked about it they responded 'Our FTP server was compromised, yes. We are beginning to find good MD5sums for files which have not yet been restored, and they will be available again Real Soon Now. If you can provide MD5sums for any of the files listed in MISSING-FILES, it would be very much appreciated.' " Update the FSF has a statement on the FTP site explaining the matter.

[Slashdot]

Oops, looks like it ain't only MSFT and its users that log on doing patching. I noticed this today when I went to grab a copy of GNATS to do a little problem tracking.

2:37:33 PM

SCO pulls Sequent's Unix license. The company terminates its Unix System V software contract with the IBM subsidiary, potentially curtailing Sequent's ability to market its Unix-based Dynix/ptx operating system. [CNET News.com]

Important in the announcement is that SCO finally sorta identifies code that was taken from SysV and put into Linux 2.4 and 2.5. I'm sure from the brief description the kernel folks can figure out what SCO is talking about and remove it.

1:42:07 PM

Goodbye Outlook Express It might be the so-called most widely distributed e-mail client, but Outlook Express returned home today to find all of its crap out on the lawn. Microsoft is halting development of the app, turning its attention to Hotmail, MSN, and the regular Outlook client. [Ars Technica]
1:33:52 PM

Flash drive maker adds boot feature. In a move that may speed the death of floppy disk drives, M-Systems says its USB flash memory storage device can now start a PC's boot-up process. [CNET News.com]
9:04:30 AM

Google Announces Corporate Search Customers. Google identified numerous users of its machine that helps companies search their own data in corporate networks and Web sites. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]
8:58:44 AM