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Friday, 11 February 2005, 05:43 PM


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In fact that because it is popular open source, free software coule be the reason that it was targeted.  I have seen many such attempted attacks caused by fanatics who are opposed free software and/or open source who try everything that they can to discredit it.

What bothers me even more about this attacks is that according to the announcement on their tempory page it was caused by a problem in the server, raher than in this software, still board using the software are being taken down by the hosting companies.

This reminds me of a sucessful cracker a few years ago.  The main website of some open source software (I forget which software it was.) was attacked and defaced.  Compared to what could have been done, the damage was mild and limited to defacing the main page.  In the end it turned out that it was the hosting companys http server that was cracked, the hosting company had reciently moved that website from a platform running Apache to one running IIS.  It was IIS that was compromised, but the people who were oppoed to open source ran a FUD propaganda campain against the open source software that was hosted on the site.  Other websites on the same groups of servers were also defaced including those of commercial software vendors.  Not much was said of that by those spreading the FUD.

Pangor