May 2, 2002

8:59 AM

GNU.org, home of the Free Software Foundation, has been hijacked by Your.com. The alternative link at FSF.org is still working, but a cursory glance at the content shows that the primary domain intended by the site authors is clearly gnu.org.
posted by moz (7 comments total)

gnu.org worked fine for me.
posted by sigma7 at 9:04 AM on May 2, 2002

with luck, maybe the reroute is for me only and others can still get through. at least that way i've only got egg on my face. as it seems now, many links to software projects hosted on the site -- pointed at gnu.org -- are now broken.
posted by moz at 9:04 AM on May 2, 2002

like a bunch of gnu hackers are gonna let that stand for more than six minutes anyway...
posted by techgnollogic at 9:09 AM on May 2, 2002

it still looks like GNU is owned by the correct people.

moz, are you all hopped up from installin' the wacky kazaa virus-laden stuff?
posted by mathowie at 9:13 AM on May 2, 2002

Bet it's a spyware problem.
posted by rodii at 9:15 AM on May 2, 2002

Oh well, glad that worked out. No GNU's is good GNU's as they say :)
posted by jonmc at 9:20 AM on May 2, 2002

matt:

no, i just checked with ad-aware. all i had was the alexa thing that comes with IE6. i've made a screenshot, but i don't really want to post it (since it's bmp, 2 megs, and i have no way of converting it).

i guess my question now is, can your.com or similar services make modifications on particular routers? that is, maybe the tables which point to the domain on my end are different from the ones on your end. that'd be a pretty shitty thing to do.
posted by moz at 9:32 AM on May 2, 2002