It's good to hear the servers are back up and running. Pia Waugh wrote:
... Details below on what happened: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-August/001506.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-August/001510.html
I'm a little shocked to hear that they were running cleartext passwords (e.g. FTP) and allowing arbitrary CGIs to be run. It's a releive to know know that SSH is now being used, it's been available since the 1990's. In the announcement, a distinction is not made between 'upgrading' and 'patching'. It should not matter if the servers were still running Breezy as long as they were patched. Patching != upgrading, and upgrading can bring its own set of problems, including security and stability. One of the key advantages of Free Software, as I have seen it, is that one has the option of keeping a stable set up and not being forced into arbitrary upgrades. Debian, on which *buntu is based is a good example and one can choose to patch the existing software. The more users a service has, the more important this is. Back to lurking, Regards, -Lars