Re: [security-discuss] gnuradio project DoS attacks GNU wget users

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   This thread is started on the GNU security-discuss because it
   involves an availability loss whereby one GNU project denies
   availability to another GNU project.

Works for Me.

  ~ $ wget http://gnuradio.org/releases/gnuradio/gnuradio-3.7.10.1.tar.gz
  --2017-02-28 16:04:32--  
http://gnuradio.org/releases/gnuradio/gnuradio-3.7.10.1.tar.gz
  Resolving gnuradio.org... 104.28.7.113, 104.28.6.113, 
2400:cb00:2048:1::681c:771, ...
  Connecting to gnuradio.org|104.28.7.113|:80... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
  Length: 4272430 (4.1M) [application/x-gzip]
  Saving to: ‘gnuradio-3.7.10.1.tar.gz’
  
  gnuradio-3.7.10.1.t 100%[===================>]   4.07M  4.29MB/s    in 0.9s   
 
  
  2017-02-28 16:04:33 (4.29 MB/s) - ‘gnuradio-3.7.10.1.tar.gz’ saved 
[4272430/4272430]

You are also (on purpose) misinterpreting freedom 0, what it means is
that you _can_ use the program for any purpose -- not that it will
actually work.  Feel free to make use of freedom 1 to modify wget so
that it works.

   ++the free software breech++

   Readers of the free.software newsgroup should be aware that a GNU tool
   (gnuradio) has violated two clauses in the GNU Free Documentation
   License ("GFDL"):

    1) Failing to distribute documentation with the software.

There is no requirement in the GFDL or the GPL that requires someone
distribute documentation with the software.

    2) Use of non-simple HTML.

There is no requirement in the GFDL or the GPL that requires someone
to use non-simple HTML.


And yes, I realise that this is a really bad trolling attempt. ;-)