Re: [Ltib] WARNING: some files on the GPP have been hacked

[Stuart Hughes]

The GPP has been restored and all should now be okay again.  Please let
me know if you see any more .md5 failures.  Normally these should only
occur if you have an interrupted transfer of a file.

Regards, Stuart

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 17:01 +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> I wanted to let everyone know early that bitshrine.org has been hacked
> and some files on the GPP are corrupted.
> 
> However, because each file has a corresponding .md5 file, you will get
> an error if LTIB downloads one of these bad files.  Looking at them,
> they just have advertising junk appended to them.
> 
> The good news is that I have backups of all the GPP files and so I will
> get them fixed.  This may take a while as it's only a generic ISP
> running this (globat.com) and so I don't have any shell login.
> 
> I will also put something in place to regularly check the files.
> 
> I'll updated you all when I know more.  In the mean time, please use
> LTIB but just be aware that some of the downloads may fail when the do
> an md5 check.
> 
> Regards, Stuart
> 
> 
> 
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