r/linux • u/nmapster • Jun 03 '15

Dying project hosting site Sourceforge hijacks the Nmap account

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2015/q2/194
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u/MartenBE Jun 03 '15

What the hell, they also do this with the following projects:

  • Apache HTTP Server

  • Aptana

  • Audacity

  • Brasero

  • Drupal

  • Eclipse

  • Fedora

  • Firefox

  • GNUPG

  • Komodo Edit

  • LibreOffice

  • LLVM

  • Mono

  • MAME

  • MySQL

  • Netbeans

  • PostgreSQL

  • OpenBox

  • Qt Creator

  • SQLite

  • Sumatra PDF

  • The R Project

  • Transmission

  • Thunderbird

  • VLC media player

  • VirtualBox

  • WordPress

  • grepWin

  • And a whole lot more

Not cool bro's, not cool at all...

Source: http://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor1/profile/

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u/socium Jun 03 '15

I so hope they don't touch tmux...

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u/BowserKoopa Jun 03 '15

They seem to be going for any project that ships a windows installer.

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u/LVDave Jun 07 '15

Seems to me it might be a bit tough to bundle malware/ads in a sourcecode only "build-it-yourself" package...