:: Re: [DNG] Fwd: April's fools mess
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Lähettäjä: Antony Stone
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Aihe: Re: [DNG] Fwd: April's fools mess
On Monday 01 April 2019 at 20:05:11, Mike Bird wrote:

> This attack...


It was not an attack.

> Any security lapse is serious.


It was not a security lapse.

> Claiming the incident was not serious does not make it less so,


However, admitting that it was a (possibly misguided) April Fool's prank does
make it not at all serious (in security terms).

> There are two very real problems: (1) the untrustworthy person
> with access to Devuan's infrastructure and (2) Devuan's thus-far
> totally inadequate response to a serious security incident.


Which part of the following did you not understand?

On Monday 01 April 2019 at 15:27:00, KatolaZ wrote:

> Again and to clarify once and for all: this was just an April fool. No
> machine was compromised. No content was moved, deleted, or tampered
> with in any way. Noone got access to the Devuan infra. No package or
> mirror was affected.
>
> I apologise if somebody thought the joke stretched a bit too far: I am
> responsible for that. I thought all the clues were clear enough, but
> apparently they were not and some people got too stressed about it. I
> am sincerely sorry about that.
>
> I will definitely make sure I will not make such a mistake again in
> the future.
>
> SorryAgain
>
> KatolaZ


Regards,


Antony.

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