[fsug-tvm] Re: Linux Foundation server compromised

2011-09-15 Thread Visakh
Hi, On Sep 14, 11:08 pm, Ershad K ersha...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, but I'm curious how the server got compromised. To start with, I made a mistake - the linux kernel is distributed from kernel.org. Not from linux foundation. The bad news is, kernel.org is also compromised. There is very little

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Linux Foundation server compromised

2011-09-15 Thread Ershad K
On 09/15/2011 09:17 PM, Visakh wrote: Hi, On Sep 14, 11:08 pm, Ershad K ersha...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, but I'm curious how the server got compromised. To start with, I made a mistake - the linux kernel is distributed from kernel.org. Not from linux foundation. The bad news is, kernel.org

[fsug-tvm] Re: Linux Foundation server compromised

2011-09-14 Thread Visakh
Hi, On Sep 11, 10:13 pm, Ershad K ersha...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/11/2011 09:11 PM, Prasad SR wrote: This is a shocking news, Indeed. But how's this really possible? The crackers should have got compromised authorization details, right? Relax! Thanks to Git, there should be thousands of

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Linux Foundation server compromised

2011-09-14 Thread Ershad K
On 09/14/2011 10:34 PM, Visakh wrote: Relax! Thanks to Git, there should be thousands of pristine copies of linux kernel history. Nothing is lost - it is only as bad as reformatting the server (figuratively). The kernel mirror as far as I know is already up in github. Yeah, but I'm curious