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From: "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)" <klondike@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hostile takeover of our github mirror. Don't use ebuild from there until new warning!
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:54:30
Message-Id: 6f2e9a70-4196-0c4a-7d04-b3342faa01b5@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hostile takeover of our github mirror. Don't use ebuild from there until new warning! by Peter Humphrey
1 El 29/06/18 a las 18:33, Peter Humphrey escribió:
2 > On Thursday, 28 June 2018 22:15:36 BST Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera
3 > (klondike) wrote:
4 >> Hi!
5 >>
6 >> I just want to notify that an attacker has taken control of the Gentoo
7 >> organization in Github and has among other things replaced the portage
8 >> and musl-dev trees with malicious versions of the ebuilds intended to
9 >> try removing all of your files.
10 >>
11 >> Whilst the malicious code shouldn't work as is and GitHub has now
12 >> removed the organization, please don't use any ebuild from the GitHub
13 >> mirror ontained before 28/06/2018, 18:00 GMT until new warning.
14 > Does this mean that we're safe to use anything from after your warning?
15 >
16 It means you are safe to use anything from official Gentoo sources other
17 than GitHub. As of now even GitHub should be okay as there was a force
18 push to restore the repositories.

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