Devuan, April Fools, and self-destruction

Posted May 2, 2019 13:41 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Devuan, April Fools, and self-destruction by mgb
Parent article: Devuan, April Fools, and self-destruction

ONE Devuan admin compromised some Devuan servers. All other Devuan admins and devs were locked out, thought the attack was real, reported that Devuan had been pwned, and were doing what they could to isolate other Devuan infrastructure from the compromised systems.

That's something I hadn't grasped, and makes this much closer to an actual insider attack by a single privileged entity. It's as much an attack as, say, an admin wiping systems before he's fired (though a less destructive one). My head is full of WTF that anyone could possibly have thought this a good idea for even a microsecond.

Devuan, April Fools, and self-destruction

Posted May 4, 2019 0:13 UTC (Sat) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

My head is full of WTF that anyone could possibly have thought this a good idea for even a microsecond.

Remember that these are the people who think it's a good idea to fork an entire Linux distribution just to get rid of an inconsequential library they don't like. Personally I'm not in the least surprised.