OT: What's up with the starship?

[George Sakkis]

rurpy at yahoo.com wrote:
> Robert Hicks wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Yes.  Do you have any answers, or do you just enjoy posting irrevelant
> responses?

I guess his response implied that what's irrelevant here is the
vulnerability, and accordingly your worries about it.