amerritt@spasticmutant.com (Spastic Mutant) writes:

Someone broke into a server at kernel.kbits.net and inserted the following code into the Linux kernel:

The code was inserted into a CVS mirror of the kernel. The kernel itself is stored and updated in BitKeeper, primarily on a machine of Linus's, and then copied to a public BitKeeper archive, and from there to the CVS mirror. Neither BitKeeper machine was not broken into and their code was not changed. So it's arguable whether the change, which was caught within 24 hours, constituted changing the Linux kernel. I would argue no. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/06/058249 and I'm told that this coverage is good, but you and I aren't able to read it for a week :) http://lwn.net/Articles/57135/ -- Jamie McCarthy http://mccarthy.vg/ jamie@mccarthy.vg ----------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]