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Skribent: Martin Steigerwald
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Til: devuan developers internal list
Emne: Re: [devuan-dev] Update on the Green Hat Hackers attack
KatolaZ - 01.04.19, 10:27:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 09:51:18AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Hi KatolaZ.
> >
> > KatolaZ - 01.04.19, 09:04:
> > > we have analysed in depth the attack from the "Green Hat Hackers"
> > > that compromised the Devuan infrastructure in the last hours, and
> > > we> > 
> > > concluded that you all are:
> > >    ***** APRIL FOOLS *****

> >
> > Okay.
> >
> > However I still think that is a very bad taste for an April fools
> > joke.
> >
> > And… it still raises the question: Did anyone gain unauthorized
> > access to the systems or did someone of the staff implement the
> > April's fools "joke"?
> >
> > If anyone unauthorized gained access… I'd still completely replace
> > affected systems as is it quite challenging to be sure to have
> > removed all ways of gaining unauthorized access the attacker might
> > have implemented. Never try to fix a compromised system.
>
> Like, really? o_O
>
> OK, apparently we need subtitles on:
>
> This was a planned April fool, see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day We never lost
> control of anyting.
> No content was moved, altered, removed, or otherwise compromised.
> No machine was compromised.
> Noone got unauthorised access to any machine or service.
>
> No worries everybody: at 1:04:19 PM UTC today we will all come back to
> our "normal" pointless lives :)


Okay, I can hear you clearly now :).

IMO you stretched it quite a bit with that with this April fools joke.
Its about security and all that.

--
Martin