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Re: was I hacked?


From: Christine Lemmer-Webber
Subject: Re: was I hacked?
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:20:05 -0400
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jgart <jgart@dismail.de> writes:

> 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

It should be possible to use the git reflog to find out what your
previous git history state was.

It would be a good idea if you could push the "suspect" branch up
somewhere where it can be examined, I'd think?



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