Comments on: FreeBSD Security Incident

By: dru

dru — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:53:48 +0000

It’s actually over-cautiousness. While the forensic analysis didn’t find any packages that were modified, this disclaimer was included for those in a security environment that warrants erring on the side of caution.

By: ZmajSnoshaj

ZmajSnoshaj — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:50:32 +0000

*nods*
I bet you could smell a bit an exabyte away. Of course you smell me, I’m downloading every package on the cluster.

By: Edge

Edge — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:50:02 +0000

RE: “Now why would they tell Power-Users to rebuild from source if “nothing was impacted”. I smell a lie.”

^—-I smell a noob—-^

Reread SLOWWWLYYYY, novice…sheesh:
“However if you are a power-user and have been manually using pkg_add to install packages from the FreeBSD package cluster,”

By: ZmajSnoshaj

ZmajSnoshaj — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 05:12:17 +0000

Now why would they tell Power-Users to rebuild from source if “nothing was impacted”. I smell a lie.

By: sg1efc

sg1efc — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:23:50 +0000

Thanks a lot Dru, Kris and everyone else.