[tjarratt]

I believe it's more that they are a visible target, being in the media and spreading their message as much as they do. Were they a small company that hosted internal webapps (for example) they probably wouldn't have been targeted as much. Imagine, for a moment, if these two attacks in seven years were successful, how many unsuccessful attacks there were as well.

Most, if not all, software after a certain point of complexity has vulnerabilities (yes, even mine). This has absolutely nothing to do with how talented their hackers may be and more with the inevitability of someone, somewhere, working hard to find, and abuse, exploits.

edit: I typed more than I intended to here, but my gist is that you're really taking light of the situation here, trivializing all of the work that has gone into gnu projects when you quote "incredibly talented hackers" and follow it up with a useless throwaway phrase like "lololololo". I thought HN was better than this.

[pjscott]

In any sufficiently large group of people, you're going to have assholes. To dismiss the people who've put so much good work into the GNU project would be offensive if it weren't so foolish; it says more about the poster than about the GNU folks. Also, consider the source:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=konad

Two previously banned accounts. It looks like HN is better than this, as a whole.

[konad]

SQL injection