[ale] Security breach on kernel.org

Fred Dinkler IV sidusnare at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 13:38:13 EDT 2011


Hi,

Linus keeps incremental offline copies of the GIT repo, if someone
fiddles with the code all the SHA1 sums will be off.

On 09/01/2011 08:10 AM, Watson, Keith wrote:
> Security breach on kernel.org
> https://www.kernel.org/
> 
> 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.
> 
> keith
> 
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