[ale] Security breach on kernel.org

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 13:38 -0400, Fred Dinkler IV wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> Linus keeps incremental offline copies of the GIT repo, if someone
> fiddles with the code all the SHA1 sums will be off.

It's not just Linus.  It's all the maintainers and just about anyone
with a driver or subsystem in the kernel (I have one).

Regards,
Mike

> 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
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > 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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