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Another update on Fedora infrastructure

Another update on Fedora infrastructure

Posted Aug 19, 2008 16:51 UTC (Tue) by Sutoka (guest, #43890)
In reply to: Another update on Fedora infrastructure by dowdle
Parent article: Another update on Fedora infrastructure

This is what I was thinking. It wasn't that long ago that something similar happened in the
Debian project, though that was 'only' a developer (and not an administrator IIRC). If one of
the Fedora admins, say, had privileged login for several of the main fedora project servers
saved on their laptop and then their laptop got stolen, the project may be taking all this as
a precautionary attempt to change all their login/keys/etc and they're keeping quiet because
they're hoping they can get everything before the person realizes what they got.

Going further with this hypothetical, it's possible there were several days before the laptop
being stolen and the Fedora projecting finding out so they may simply be worried that any
would-be attackers were able to take any credentials on the laptop and spread to other parts
of the system as well, and they're using this as an opportunity to do a *complete*
audit/reinstalls/upgrades/etc.

Then again, this is all speculation so I may be completely off.


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