Re: FOAF sites offline during cleanup

Seemingly leaking through a SW channel of @yahoogroups.com, an annoying 
amount of sex junk e-mails. Who is moderating this listing, please put some 
filter. Thanks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Brickley" <danbri@danbri.org>
To: "foaf-dev Friend of a" <foaf-dev@lists.foaf-project.org>; 
<foaf-protocols@lists.foaf-project.org>; "Semantic Web" 
<semantic-web@w3.org>
Cc: "Thomas Roessler" <tlr@w3.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 3:31 PM
Subject: FOAF sites offline during cleanup


>
> The server hosting several FOAF related sites has been compromised.
>
> I am taking everything offline until I can be 100% sure we are clean of 
> malicious PHP and suchlike (and moved to Amazon EC2 hosting). Apologies 
> for any inconvenience. My own site at danbri.org is also affected.
>
> The Subversion files behind the FOAF spec and other materials are on a 
> different machine, and remain online. See:
>
> http://svn.foaf-project.org/foaf/trunk/xmlns.com/htdocs/foaf/
>
> I will send a status update to foaf-dev,foaf-protocols and semantic-web at 
> the end of the week.
>
> In the meantime, I would like everyone on these lists to think about 
> strategies for reducing our exposure to hacked RDF schemas. I believe the 
> best approach today is to use a subset of XML Signature, and have talked 
> with Thomas Roessler (cc:'d) a bit during WWW2009 about what such a spec 
> and toolset might look like. I expect to continue and track that 
> conversation through the new W3C SocialWeb incubutor group.
>
> I'll keep you all posted. Apologies for any inconvenience.
>
> Dan
>

Received on Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:19:40 UTC