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Github compromised

Github compromised

Posted Mar 6, 2012 0:17 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Github compromised by drag
Parent article: Github compromised

The concern about people not knowing that they are compromised is nothing new, and it isn't limited to websites (let alone open source related websites)

do you really think that the hundreds of thousands of people who's machines make up botnets are allowing this knowingly? or do you think it's more likely that they are unaware that their machine has been compromised?

You may as well start yelling that all banks are unsafe because there have been three bank robberies in the US in the last week (I don't know what the stats are, but from having had a friend who worked in a national bank's security call center, I'm confident that there have been at least that many, just from probabilities)


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