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Old 22nd August 2008
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Tanked, the best way to do it might have been a less sensational title in the Linux section. Something like RedHat servers apparently compromised, which is a more accurate assessment. Then, the link becomes useful for those who use RH servers at work or home.

For you CentOS folks, there is a thread on their forums, the CentOS developers are checking as I type. Things seems OK (actually, this is the public stance for RH and Fedora as well).
At any rate, I would far rather they were overly cautious about it rather than overly nochalant.

As Corey_James pointed out, however, with a fairly sensationalist title and a link with no comment, it makes us look like the National Enquirer. (For those outside of the US, that's one of the well-know papers that will print the articles about seeing Elvis on a space ship. For those really young ones, Elvis doesn't refer to the default Slack and Deb version of vi, it refers to a well known performer who died several years ago.)
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