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A critical security bug in tarsnap

Posted Jan 20, 2011 4:07 UTC (Thu) by branden (subscriber, #7029)
In reply to: A critical security bug in tarsnap by branden
Parent article: A critical security bug in tarsnap

Oh, it's not Free Software. Never mind.

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Posted Jan 20, 2011 6:14 UTC (Thu) by wahern (subscriber, #37304) [Link]

The author should be applauded for at least keeping the source code open. But I may have just violated the terms by inspecting the code without using the backup service.

"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, without modification,
is permitted for the sole purpose of using the 'tarsnap' backup service
provided by Colin Percival."

A critical security bug in tarsnap

Posted Jan 20, 2011 9:27 UTC (Thu) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

Ick. I'd run across tarsnap before, and noticed that it had source code available; I never happened to come across the license, though. Thanks for pointing it out.