[ale] CentOS story

[Richard Bronosky]

I don't think the guy is malicious. I fear that he may have gotten
hurt. Someone with proximity should check on him and file a missing
person report.

On 7/30/09, Brandon Checketts <brandon at brandonchecketts.com> wrote:
> Chris Fowler wrote:
>> I'm running 5.X extensively now.  I suspect maybe I should somehow
>> download all updates to my server so that when I do a new install I can
>> still update it.  I don't have faith the updates will continue.
>
>
> I suspect the best path to take is going to be for CentOS to migrate
> everything
> to a new domain name ASAP.   Lance can effectively hold 'centos.org' hostage
> as
> long as he is the only one with control of it.
>
> If he was the malicious type, he could probably do some real damage by
> pointing
> the name elsewhere and then serving up bogus packages to unsuspecting yum
> users
> (assuming he has a key with which to sign the packages)
>
> This should be an interesting story.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon Checketts
>
>
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