<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I am not questioning intentions. Good intentions on their own are not enough. And I am not commenting on skill or expertise. <br><br>Specifically, the big issues that the incidents at hand uncovered are:<br><br></div>- Being silent about a hack that copied user data for a month.<br></div><div>- Not providing kernel updates<br></div><div>- Not publishing CVE information<br><br></div><div>This could all be oversight, but in the end it puts users in danger.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The prudent action by any user is to find an alternative, regardless of what the details are.<br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Bob Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>It's all well and good to say Free Software projects must be managed to professional SysAdmin standards, but how many people have contributed towards that goal? As far as I know, Clem is the only person actively working on that project, and he openly publishes the donations he receives: <a href="http://linuxmint.com/donors.php" target="_blank">http://linuxmint.com/donors.php</a> It looks substantial, but when you subtract the costs of running the site there's not much left over for food and shelter.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div dir="ltr">And the forum database was hacked and sold a full month before they announced they were hacked.<br><br>Very disappointing to see a popular free software project being mismanaged that way, with no proper updates.<br><br><a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-mint-forum-database-compromised-for-at-least-a-month-before-announcement-500901.shtml" target="_blank">http://news.softpedia.com/news/linux-mint-forum-database-compromised-for-at-least-a-month-before-announcement-500901.shtml</a><br></div>
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