Fake Emails about Emergency Security Update

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Mon Oct 25 17:07:04 UTC 2004


man, 25.10.2004 kl. 00.36 skrev Ben Steeves:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:35:17 +0200, Sindre Pedersen Bjordal
> <foolish at fedoraforum.org> wrote:
> > http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=119734#post119734
> > 
> > Ewdinson Then came over this tonight, first time I've ever seen anything
> > like this. I don't know who I'm supposed to contact about this, but an
> > email here might get the message across.
> > 
> > IANAL, but this must be a legal issue, as there's clearly a trademark
> > violation.
> 
> People have been doing it to Microsoft for years ... it was only a
> matter of time before someone picked on RedHat.  In fact, I think
> these have been floated before.  Anyone familiar with how Red Hat
> and/or Fedora handle patches will immediately spot this as bogus.
> -- 
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Just shows how important it is to have signed packages...




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