[arch-general] ftp.gigabit.nu / ftp.archlinux.se shutting down

[Rickard Eriksson]

On 07/04/2010 10:48 PM, Nathan Wayde wrote:
> On 04/07/10 21:35, Rickard Eriksson wrote:
>> Cut from the forum where my co-admin first put this up, however it got
>> closed with reason "trolling"...
>>
>>
>>
>> This mirror will shut down in the upcoming days.
>>
>> Few funny facts:
>>
>> * We never got contacted by anyone before we got added in the official
>> mirror list. We just posted this thread and all of the sudden it
>> appeared. No verification of whom we were and what our intension were.
>>
>> * ArchLinux is fundamentally unscalable in the package manager aspect.
>>
>> * ArchLinux puts the trust in the hands of every mirror owner and their
>> security. ftp.archlinux.se is the prime example of a machine vulnerable
>> to all sorts of things. This affect YOUR security. This is why it's
>> being put down. If the ArchLinux authors would start signing packages
>> this would not be a risk to you.
>>
>> * We posted a suggestion of this in 2006.
>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5331 -- This is 4 years of insecurity.
>>
>> * We recommend all of you to switch to a distribution caring about user
>> security and atleast signs their packages. Most RPM and APT based
>> distros does this (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, CentOS, SuSE, OpenSuSE, etc
>> etc etc).
>>
>> Have fun. :-)
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Mikael & Rickard
>>
> It's true, you are trolling.

I'm afraid not, the hostnames has already been removed and the server is 
being shutdown. However, I guess you could call the suggestions trolling 
of some kind however..

Best regards
Rickard Eriksson