Jason Grout wrote: > 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. >> >> 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). > > > If this is a final decision, at least for the short term, can we pull > the links from the sage website and put some explanatory text up?
Yes, this is a shortterm final decision. I always planned to run the public servers as is until some script kiddie $%%#$^% etc. I assume Harald Schilly will fix the website. Note that as I say above, this "final decision" really is "short term", i.e., probably 2-3 weeks. vmware is perfect for this application. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@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-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
