help-guix
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: was I hacked?


From: jgart
Subject: Re: was I hacked?
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:01:13 -0400

On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 09:05:29 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:
> Rolling back to an older generation and then moving forward basically
> would be a successfull (hopefully just accidental) attack changing the
> commit history! Rolling back to an older generation isn't much different
> than just blindly allowing to move forward to a different branch...

That's a very good point that I only just thought of now after doing it ;()

> Is it possible that one of your channels actually had the exact same
> commit in it, but then forked off in different directions?

I don't have any other channel that is mirroring GNU Guix upstream.

> It is rather unsettling to not know what happened...

Yes, it is. I agree.

Others have reported this issue on irc at #guix.

See the logs.

I think they just blindly used --allow-downgrades while I blindly rolled back 
and forward

Hopefully we find out what happened.

all best,

jgart



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]