staff blogs

distributed.net staff keep (relatively) up-to-date logs of their activities in .plan files. These were traditionally available via finger, but we've put them on the web for easier consumption.

2003-08-29

bovine [29-Aug-2003 @ 00:38]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 00:38 +00:00

:: 29-Aug-2003 00:38 GMT (Friday) ::

I’ve added a couple new clients on the pre-release page (NeXT and
NetBSD) and moved two earlier NeXT clients onto the release page.
http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.php
http://www.distributed.net/download/updates.php

There have also been a couple of reports of unauthorized client
installations in combination with a root kit, so I’ve added another
entry to: http://www.distributed.net/trojans.php

Naturally this type of behavior is very unacceptable and causes a
great amount of effort for those who need to rebuild machines that
have been compromised in this way. So please restrain yourself to
only running out client on machines that you have proper authorization
and permission to do so on.

In other news, as of this weekend the keymaster is now filtering old
OGR blocks from clients from version v2.8014 or earlier (as per my
previous plan).