Dear community members and contributors,
in the last few month we saw security breaches at gnu.org[1], at
sourceforge.net[2] and at fedora[3].
Even if it is believed that the integrity of the hosted projects
was not affected I want to take the opportunity to remind you to
always verify the cryptographic checksums of downloaded archive
files, review patches and keep a healthy relationship/communication
to the upstream authors.
It is good practise to change your password from time to time and make
it hard to guess[4][5]. Take extra care using public wifi hotspots,
crowded places[6], like trains, and other peoples computer etc.
Cheers,
Thomas
[1] http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/11/savannah-gnu-org-hacked-and-currently-offline...
[2] http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/sourceforge/2011/01/27/service-downtim...
[3] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-January/002911.html
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength
[5] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen/
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_surfing_%28computer_security%29
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Thomas Biege