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What kind of a dick would do this to Gentoo, who makes everything available to everyone? I don't understand the world sometimes.

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Someone who wants to steal crypto for example. Being able to inject a crypto stealer in a major distribution surely motivates a lot of people to try.

Someone with such long term goals would most likely not do it as noisy and destructive as this attack seems to be (delete all files, rename the Github org, etc.).

gentoo is the poster child (real or tongue in cheek, doesn't matter) of the tech forum on 4chan.

What do you mean? Also I haven’t noticed a tech board on 4chan...

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/install-gentoo

4chan has many boards, including /g/, the technology board. Sarcastically (and sometimes non-sarcastically) recommending new users to install Gentoo is a longstanding tradition on the board, alongside other gentoo-related memes. For instance: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Main_Page

I sincerely hope 4chan users aren't responsible for this, though.

>I sincerely hope 4chan users aren't responsible for this, though.

If there is a severe security issue either in GitHub infrastructure or in the Gentoo Foundation's procedures which would allow this kind of breach, having them revealed by a stupid prank is one of the best outcomes you can hope for.

/g/ is fairly calm and civil at least when put into perspective of the rest of 4chan.

Some of them have been deleted. Some of them were text-only and didn’t show up on the main index.

He's referring to /g/

I suspect white teen, under 17. See incident report: 20:34:xx Malicious commit to gentoo/gentoo, 73b72409->fdd8da2e

    adds readme.me file with text niggers.

source: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Github/2018-06-28

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