[Infowarrior] - Bastille Linux domain commandeered by squatter

[Richard Forno]

http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/press-release-newname.html

>Dear Bastille Linux Users,
> 
> On the morning of September 11th, 2007, alerted by handlers from the Internet
> Storm Center, I learned that one Mykhaylo Perebiynis purchased our Bastille
> Linux domain and is demanding $10,000 to return it to the project. He appears
> to be in business as a domain squatter. I'll post more information about this
> soon - refresh this page later today (9/12/07) for more information.
> 
> That's the bad news. Now time for the good news and our future plans.
> 
> First, the squatter hasn't focused on having a functional website. He isnt
> hosting any downloads: Trojan horses or otherwise. He seems to just be in it
> for the money. The Bastille Linux downloads were always hosted at Sourceforge,
> where they continue to be available.
> 
> Second, the lawyers tell me that we shouldnt have trouble getting the domain
> back. It will take a bit of time, but both legal action and the domain
> arbitration process should prove effective. We have an existing trademark on
> the domain dating back to 1999. This will simply take some time.
> 
> Third, the real Bastille Linux website has always been available, along with
> our downloads, via the http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net site, similar to
> every other Sourceforge project. This is where the www.Bastille-Linux.org site
> used to virtual host to, so it's ready and tested. We'll be updating the major
> software index sites with this URL over the course of the next week.
> 
> Now for our future plans.
> 
> We're going to take this event as an opportunity. Bastille Linux has been
> running on two non-Linux platforms for years, Mac OSX and HP-UX. Hewlett
> Packard packages Bastille by default with HP-UX, integrates it with their
> installer, and provides technical support to their customers for it. Much like
> Douglas Adams' increasingly mis-counted Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy
> trilogy, Bastille Linux is now two non-Linuxes past its name. We've been
> considering a name change to reflect this for some time. So...
> 
> Bastille Linux is now Bastille Unix!
> 
> We've purchased the Bastille-Unix.org domain and will set the
> Bastille-Linux.org website to transparently forward to the Bastille-Unix.org
> website once we get the domain back.
> 
> I'll write more soon, but I wanted to get the word out as quickly as possible.
> Please use the the new domain now:
> 
> www.Bastille-Unix.org
> 
> Thank you for all the support, gratitude, and code/idea/testing contributions
> over the years. I'm optimistic for the future.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Jay Beale
> 
> Project Lead and Original Author, Bastille Linux / Bastille Unix
> Co-Founder and Senior Security Consultant, Intelguardians Network
> Intelligence, LLC
> 
> P.S. I'd like to take this opportunity to circulate my PGP fingerprint. I'll
> use this key to sign any downloads and critical e-mail announcements from now
> on.
> 
> pub   1024D/03C52606 2006-12-01
>  Key fingerprint = B1E1 F7AE 6DAF 5943 BCFA  3143 40B8 85EC 03C5 2606
> uid                  Jay Beale (Jay Intelguardians Key Generated 12/2006)