[mirror-admin] Fedora mirrors question

[Brian Long]

On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 22:28 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 09:22:09PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00011.html
> 
> First of all, as a sysadmin, I can only imagine what a pain this all must of
> been and no question everyone deserves the accolades given.
> 
> But, since this is a private list and all, I hope I can be blunt: the update
> doesn't address the critical question which has everyone all upset about the
> initial announcement. Namely: should we all panic about our own systems, or
> not?

Just speculation, but it sounds like there's been a serious security
breach within the Fedora Infrastructure environment and they installed
everything from scratch.  I imagine this is why it does not directly
affect the mirrors and that's why they're not divulging more
information.

/Brian/

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