On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 at 00:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: > > the question i keep arriving at is who benefits from the publicity > surrounding this? there's got to be a reason why no calling card was > left, i.e., the caller has a vested interest in not claiming credit, > which would tend to suggest a contract job. as to the issue of whether > the attacker had previous knowledge of the debian servers, only a fool > wouldn't do everything to acquaint him/herself with the environment > where they plan to engage in mischief.
Maybe someone just wanted to test their abilities against what should be a fairly locked-down system? > given the regular stream of ridiculous garbage coming from redmond > about linux, while new holes are found in their os and apps on an > almost weekly basis, this seems like the next stage in the campaign to > buttress the losses they've been taking all the while linux has found > favor. apart from the money issue, linux, and particularly debian, > represents the absolute opposite to their culture. this distro, as a > product of volunteerism on the part of people who have nothing to gain > apart from their own satisfaction in making the thing work, represents > a huge philosophical challenge to those who view the world in terms of > how much they can extract from it. I find this to be unlikely. I mean, look at the risk vs. reward. Reward: they cause a very temporary disruption to some trusted sources and cause some folks to maybe worry about how secure linux might be. Risk: getting caught funding black hats against the competition. This just doesn't sound like good business to me. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
