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Crackers owned the primary file servers of the GNU Project from mid-March until two weeks ago, the Free Software Foundation admitted this week.

The attack raises concerns about whether malicious code could have been inserted in the software available for download, including Linux.

Wow. Ok, all you people who have a faith based notion that open source is automatically safer than proprietary code - here's the counter-example. What this shows is everyone has to monitor their systems and keep up to date on security patches...