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Whoever hacked the Gentoo system must have had knowledge of the vulnerability, my guess - it is the same group who tried to get access to the Debian servers. Maybe they had pot luck at them to see if it worked. The big thing is that they had to work at it to do it (20 people where connected at the same time, trying to hide in the numbers). This is not a script kiddie that did this. This is a concerted effort to compromise Linux. My question remains - what is their purpose for this (spammers, virus writers etc)?

The vulnerability will be fixed soon and other distro's will know about it. Everyone will benefit from the flaw being known and fixing it.
Posted by: crocd   Posted on: 12/04/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Hacked Linux?  Octol | 12/04/03
Nothing like a little schadenfreude...  frgough@... | 12/04/03
What's the matter?  John Dulles | 12/04/03
what medicine?  ryusen | 12/04/03
Hmmm . . . SCO maybe ?  meveridge_z | 12/06/03
pst  stephen732@... | 12/04/03
It was the "admin's" fault...  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/04/03
Unknown my foot  John Dulles | 12/04/03
puma ignoramus  nikoli | 12/04/03
Did you smoke ...  dopeshow | 12/04/03
Re: Hacked Linux?  Martin Marvinski | 12/04/03
reputable linux user?  nikoli | 12/04/03
really?  ryusen | 12/04/03
sorry  engel000 | 12/05/03
Hacked Linux? Yes  Clete2 | 12/09/03
oops  Clete2 | 12/09/03
It was an evil M$ spell  theraven_z | 06/27/05
The bigger the target...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/04/03
Then why isn't apache hacked...  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/04/03
Uh huh...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/04/03
m$ #1  stephen732@... | 12/04/03
Gentoo runs Windows????  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/04/03
Then what...  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/04/03
You certainly are something "GRindinAxTaRupy"  toadlife | 12/04/03
Yes, Linux has vunerabilities.  nucrash | 12/04/03
Re: Yes, Linux has vunerabilities.  Martin Marvinski | 12/04/03
Missed the point of that post  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/04/03
That doesn't surprise anyone...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/04/03
Gee Bit..thought condescending snotty replies...  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/04/03
For my coat tail riders I make an exception.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/04/03
No credible argument?  toadlife | 12/04/03
How many bugs in IIS  jasonp@... | 12/04/03
What a sad excuse.  dopeshow | 12/04/03
As i said before:  ryusen | 12/04/03
Yes!  John Le'Brecage | 12/04/03
Correction...  John Le'Brecage | 12/04/03
Had to be the Administrator, its not an OS issue  FilledOut | 12/04/03
More than likely..  vdraken | 12/04/03
Yes, it is the rsync!  dopeshow | 12/04/03
Never had a need to.  vdraken | 12/04/03
Linux being hacked  crocd | 12/04/03
Because they can.  vdraken | 12/04/03
usually though,  ryusen | 12/04/03
It's because  John Dulles | 12/04/03
Yes indeed...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/04/03
Yes indeed  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/04/03
Not sure of the #'s  Suicida| | 12/07/03
cheap thrill  crocd | 12/04/03
Vulnerable Linux vs. Multi-Billion $$$ MS Antics  michael-t | 12/04/03
Don't blame us, the other guy is worse?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/04/03
don't usually agree with you but...  nikoli | 12/04/03
Correction Needed?  michael-t | 12/04/03
Best Practice = Best Answer  michael-t | 12/04/03
compromised to a LESSER degree than Linux...  toadlife | 12/04/03
*BSD is Unix  michael-t | 12/04/03
Rearrange  Yagotta B. Kidding | 12/04/03
It is impossible  michael-t | 12/04/03
Nitpick all you want but  toadlife | 12/04/03
Unix vs *BSD vs Linux  michael-t | 12/04/03
Be fair  Rokstar83 | 12/05/03
The Ultimate Security Tool  nucrash | 12/04/03
Interesting Point  michael-t | 12/04/03
So is OS X Server now the only....  mlindl | 12/05/03
michael-t  noShut_z | 12/05/03
Thanks  michael-t | 12/05/03

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