{"id":144477,"date":"2015-11-02T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=144477"},"modified":"2015-11-02T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T08:23:43","slug":"arch-linux-install-on-twitch-gets-hijacked-by-gentoo-botnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/144477-arch-linux-install-on-twitch-gets-hijacked-by-gentoo-botnet.html","title":{"rendered":"Arch Linux install on Twitch gets hijacked by Gentoo botnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group which calls itself <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitchintheshell.com\" target=\"_blank\">Twitch in the Shell<\/a><\/strong> embarked on a mission to crowdsource the installation of Arch Linux on a virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p>The installation would be live streamed and viewers would be able to vote on which character to type in a terminal window.<\/p>\n<p>Every ten seconds, the character with the highest votes would get typed.<\/p>\n<p>Much trolling was predicted for this experiment, with naysayers predicting geek comedians would organise a way to type &#8220;<code>rm -rf \/<\/code>&#8220;, wiping the machine\u2019s drive.<\/p>\n<p>What ended up happening was that an enterprising hacker recruited a botnet to hijack the Twitch in the Shell chat, and managed to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/twitchinstallsarchlinux\/v\/23578745\">partially install Gentoo<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Arch Linux and Gentoo are both distributions of the GNU\/Linux operating system, with Gentoo considered a rival of Arch Linux.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linux.slashdot.org\/story\/15\/11\/02\/0125246\/botnet-takes-over-twitch-install-and-partially-installs-gentoo\">report on Slashdot<\/a><\/strong>, the Twitch in the Shell community thwarted the botnet and was in the process of reinstalling Arch Linux.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Linux news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/144439-linux-4-3-kernel-is-out.html\"><strong>Linux 4.3 kernel is out<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/135456-ibm-unveils-linux-only-mainframes.html\"><strong>IBM unveils Linux-only mainframes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/70588-steam-for-linux-released-available-on-ubuntu-software-centre.html\"><strong>Steam for Linux released<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a system to let viewers vote on which character to type next, a group planned to install Arch Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":84845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[36,7625,33709,1799,21051,33705,33707],"class_list":["post-144477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-software","tag-active","tag-arch-linux","tag-gentoo","tag-linux","tag-twitch","tag-twitch-in-the-shell","tag-twitch-installs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144481,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144477\/revisions\/144481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}