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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air
Date: 9 Nov 2003 07:16:15 -0800
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Followup to:  <20031107051048.GA6099@work.bitmover.com>
By author:    Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> As many of you have figured out, I took kernel.bkbits.net (aka bk.kernel.org,
> cvs.kernel.org, and svn.kernel.org) of the air yesterday due to the breakin
> that attempted to add a trojan horse to the kernel source.
> 
> I took it down after talking with Linus and Dave about it, the point was to
> shut down the disk drive so that we can go do forensics on it after the fact
> and see what we can figure out.  Maybe someone can track down who caused the
> problem.
> 
> This means someone has to go down to the colo with a new disk and do
> an install and we've been too busy to do this.  Would anyone object if
> this wasn't done until this weekend?  We're pretty booked up here with
> other work.  Last I checked only about 6 IP addresses where using the CVS
> server, I've never checked on the SVN server (Ben?  You have any idea?).
> 

That doesn't include anyone who uses the mirrored repository on the
main kernel.org machines.  Doubt it's a big deal with the timing,
though.

	-hpa
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