[ale] Security breach on kernel.org

[Ron Frazier]

I'd hate to see a Trojan get into the kernel and auto update to my PC.  
Hopefully, that's not likely.  Hopefully, it's not possible.

Ron

On 9/1/2011 8:10 AM, Watson, Keith wrote:
> Security breach on kernel.org
> https://www.kernel.org/
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> Earlier this month, a number of servers in the kernel.org infrastructure were compromised. We discovered this August 28th. While we currently believe that the source code repositories were unaffected, we are in the process of verifying this and taking steps to enhance security across the kernel.org infrastructure.
>
>
> There is more information on their home page.
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> keith
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> Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
> IT Support professional Lead           College of Computing
> keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
> (404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
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