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Tue Feb 22 18:54:42 UTC 2011


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The recent attacks may actually mean positive publicity for Linux,
according to Sophos security researcher Paul Ducklin.

=93The =91Linux is a nothing more than a hobby product=92 naysayers will be
compelled to admit that the operating system really is part of the Big
Time. Why else would kernel.org be in the sights of cybercrooks?=94 he
wrote on a Sophos blog. =93And Linux itself will emerge almost entirely
unscathed because if any dodgy changes are found in the codebase,
there will be a public record of them getting rolled back and order
restored.=94
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One note from all that lot:

Don't trust unguarded ssh-keys automatic access!

Cheers,
Martin



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