OT: What's up with the starship?

[Robert Hicks]

rurpy at yahoo.com wrote:
> T. Bryan wrote:
> > Thomas Heller wrote:
> >
> > > I cannot connect to starship.python.net: neither http, nor can I login
> > > interactively with ssl (and the host key seems to have changed as well).
> > >
> > > Does anyone know more?
> >
> > starship.python.net was compromised.  It looked like a rootkit may have been
> > installed.  The volunteer admins are in the process of reinstalling the OS
> > and rebuilding the system.  That process will probably take a few days at
> > least.
>
> Does anyone know more?
>
> What about the integrity of the python packages hosted there?
> When was the site compromised?
> I just installed the python 2.5 pywin module last week.
> Should I be concerned?
>
> Is this related to the Python security problem recently announced?

Did you even read about the vulnerability?

Robert