OT: What's up with the starship?

[T. Bryan]

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.  

---Tom