News GNU servers 'owned' by crackers since March

From the Register:

Crackers owned the primary file servers of the GNU Project from mid-March until two weeks ago, the Free Software Foundation admitted this week.

The attack raises concerns about whether malicious code could have been inserted in the software available for download, including Linux.

However, evidence suggests no source code distributions were modified as a result of the attack. Current files have all been validated by the FSF, which oversees the GNU Project.

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Maybe these 'crackers' were the ones who added UNIX code to Linux... quick someone tell SCO!!