What is scary about these people is what morons they are.

You have cracked a widely used repository of software. People are in the habit of downloading and running code from this repository with full administrative access. (How many of us have done this on how many different machines?) And so you go about showing your mastery of script kiddie-dom by advertising that you have compromised the site???

There are also valid questions here for the Perl community about trust...

ObConspiracyTheory: This is part of a Microsoft anti Open Source campaign. One of their difficulties is that people think open source software is more secure than Microsoft software. With recent high profile but non-destructive attacks on Sourceforge, Apache and CPAN, they cast doubt on the security of open source software, while doing no financial damage so there is guaranteed to be no FBI investigation to catch them...

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: search.cpan.org site attacked? Why? by tilly
in thread search.cpan.org site attacked? Why? by bikeNomad

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