Fake Emails about Emergency Security Update

Ben Steeves ben.steeves at gmail.com
Sun Oct 24 22:36:50 UTC 2004


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:35:17 +0200, Sindre Pedersen Bjordal
<foolish at fedoraforum.org> wrote:
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=119734#post119734
> 
> Ewdinson Then came over this tonight, first time I've ever seen anything
> like this. I don't know who I'm supposed to contact about this, but an
> email here might get the message across.
> 
> IANAL, but this must be a legal issue, as there's clearly a trademark
> violation.

People have been doing it to Microsoft for years ... it was only a
matter of time before someone picked on RedHat.  In fact, I think
these have been floated before.  Anyone familiar with how Red Hat
and/or Fedora handle patches will immediately spot this as bogus.
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