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From: nosp <nosp@xades.com>
To: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BK2CVS problem
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 12:02:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1068120121.593.161.camel@earth.xades.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311061141.00595.andrew@walrond.org>

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 11:41, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Somebody getting access to and inserting exploits directly into the linux 
> source is not something we should take lightly. Whilst we understand the 
> limits of the problem, the fact that it happened at all could get /.'d out of 
> all proportion and be used to seriously undermine linux's reputation

Already happened.  Check slashdot.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-06 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-05 20:45 BK2CVS problem Larry McVoy
2003-11-05 20:58 ` Matthew Dharm
2003-11-05 22:23   ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-05 22:33     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-05 22:51       ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-06  7:07         ` Brian McGroarty
2003-11-06 11:41           ` Andrew Walrond
2003-11-06 12:02             ` nosp [this message]
2003-11-06 12:02             ` Xavier Bestel
2003-11-06 13:27             ` Scott Robert Ladd
2003-11-06 13:59               ` Richard B. Johnson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-05 22:48 Chad Kitching
2003-11-05 22:53 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-05 23:03 ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-06  0:52   ` Tomas Szepe
2003-11-06  1:57     ` Andreas Dilger
2003-11-06  2:20       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-06  3:01       ` Larry McVoy
2003-11-06 10:40         ` Matthias Andree
2003-11-06  4:09   ` Scott Robert Ladd
2003-11-06 10:06     ` bert hubert
2003-11-06 13:22       ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-11-06 14:43         ` Rik van Riel
2003-11-06 15:56       ` Linus Torvalds

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