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Re:Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account by ikeboy on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @09:48AM (#9652466)
>Of course, the game-theoretic response from the entire internet community is to make sure they never, ever, for any reasons whatsoever, ever click on a link that starts with "sourceforge.net"

That's a nice idealistic response, but what about when you can't find a file anywhere else?

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Re:Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account by scuba7183 on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @10:44AM (#9652915)
Depends on how much you need the file
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Re:Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account by yellowapple on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @08:36PM (#9656792)
So that's when we start downloading Sourceforge's files en masse (with ad-blockers enabled so that they're not rewarded for their misbehavior), stripping out the malware, and rehosting them somewhere.
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