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Originally posted by etnlWings View PostThe moral of the story: lulz were had, no permanent damage was done, some people got butthurt.
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Originally posted by stikonas View PostAnd even if rebasing published repositories is not recommended, in this case it is probably a good idea, there is no need to tolerate vandalism even if the project is not thriving.
Vandalism like this should NEVER be tolerated at any level. It would be good to remove the entire vandalized tree and replace with a last known good version of the tree.
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Originally posted by Delgarde View PostNo. Moral of the story, someone with root access on those servers thinks playing pranks is a good use of the trust people have given him. Harmless or not, this is a pretty bad look for FD.o...
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Originally posted by V!NCENT View PostYou know what concerns me? If somebody can delete an entire git tree without anyone knowing, then how can one detect a simple backdoor?
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It was Adam Jackson: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-dev...er/015901.htmlMichael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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Originally posted by DeepDayze View PostExactly, so what is there to gain by even pulling such really childish crap like that on some project that's been rather moribund? Security needs to be tightened up and git's the better way to go about managing a source tree.
Vandalism like this should NEVER be tolerated at any level. It would be good to remove the entire vandalized tree and replace with a last known good version of the tree.
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Originally posted by Michael View PostIt was Adam Jackson: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-dev...er/015901.html
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