On Wednesday 07 April 2010 16:06:03 Butterworth, John W. wrote: > So to avoid "spamming" with 20+ Thank You emails I'll send out just one and > thank you all collectively for the information provided (I hope this isn't > rude - I'm not sure of proper protocol in this situation). > > I have a lot more insight now and some new ideas of where I need to look to > learn more. This is a great community and it reflects in the OS - I don't > know why I waited so long to try Gentoo.(??)!
I was wrong, this was kicking around before 2004! Feast your eyes on this and the steps taken by devs to achieve a workable security process: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0057.html This is a brief summary of the compromise that took place in 2003: http://www.compatdb.org/forums/topic/882-rsyncgentooorg-rotation-server- compromised/ -- Regards, Mick
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