Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Jul 2006 09:24 UTC, submitted by george
The Debian GNU/Linux project today admitted a hacker had compromised one of its internal servers. "Early this morning we discovered that someone had managed to compromise gluck.debian.org," Debian developer James Troup wrote in an e-mail to the Debian community. "We've taken the machine offline and are preparing to reinstall it," Troup continued, noting a number of key services were currently offline as a result.
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You have to look at frequency. This kind of stuff happens regularly in the windows world.
sure, but you can'T compare it to all the insecure desktops out there. you have to compare it with microsoft, msn or hotmail getting hacked. and when was the last time this happened?
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quoting smashit"sure, but you can'T compare it to all the insecure desktops out there. you have to compare it with microsoft, msn or hotmail getting hacked. and when was the last time this happened?"
Incidentally microsoft and msn use akamai which uses a combination of linux, windows and other servers.
hotmail uses a proprietary edition of windows unavailable to the public.
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You have to look at frequency. This kind of stuff happens regularly in the windows world.
It happens once.... *once* to a debian server an all of a sudden linux is insecure.
Nothing is perfect, but you're making a very big stretch here.