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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
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: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:33:16
Message-Id: 12546973.IAyE9UUhgB@peak
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Hostile takeover of our github mirror. Don't use ebuild from there until new warning! by "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)"
1 On Thursday, 28 June 2018 22:15:36 BST Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera
2 (klondike) wrote:
3 > Hi!
4 >
5 > I just want to notify that an attacker has taken control of the Gentoo
6 > organization in Github and has among other things replaced the portage
7 > and musl-dev trees with malicious versions of the ebuilds intended to
8 > try removing all of your files.
9 >
10 > Whilst the malicious code shouldn't work as is and GitHub has now
11 > removed the organization, please don't use any ebuild from the GitHub
12 > mirror ontained before 28/06/2018, 18:00 GMT until new warning.
13
14 Does this mean that we're safe to use anything from after your warning?
15
16 --
17 Regards,
18 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Hostile takeover of our github mirror. Don't use ebuild from there until new warning! "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)" <klondike@g.o>