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> Mocking evil hackers is a very stupid idea. So, every script kiddie is an "evil hacker" now? > Oh and I believe they tried this because someone was successf
by scribu 14y ago
> Mocking evil hackers is a very stupid idea.
So, every script kiddie is an "evil hacker" now?
> Oh and I believe they tried this because someone was successful in the past if I remember correctly.
Source?
- ck2 14y agoAt least one incident here, my memory is clouded by all the issues over the years: http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/22/1241241/wordpressorg-hacked-plugin-repository-compromised http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/22/1241241/wordpressorg-h...
- scribu 14y agoThanks for the link, but inserting commits by hacking the infrastructure isn't quite the same as having a pull request officially merged. Even the Linux infrastructure was hacked not too long ago. More such example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464303 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464303