William Stein wrote: > Hello, > > A security researcher decided to purposely take down sage.math to > demonstrate that it is possible to fork bomb the machine through the > public sage notebook servers. I had always plan to run these comletley > public servers until something like this happened. Therefore, > sagenb.org (and the other public sage notebook servers I host) will be > completely disable until further notice.
So the issue is not necessarily the fork-bomb (which could be avoided using process limitations), but in the malicious use of the notebook? > I might re-enable them in the future if I set them up from scratch > using a vmware virtual machine and vmware server. Given that I've never > successfully configured vmware server on any Linux box, I don't know > when this will happen. If a Sage developer would like to attempt to do > this instead of me on sage.math please contact me, since this is not > currently my highest priority (especially, because I'm in France > traveling right now). > I have a virtualbox image based on ubuntu JeOS that I am using on Linux right now. Would you consider using VirtualBox? Thanks, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
