Account Hijacking by Sourceforge

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beoroldblack

I would advise the maintainers tomove to another provider e.g. Github, since Sourceforge is know to perform feats of Account hijacking and Malware insertion.

Source: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2015/q2/194
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gdhm

I would advise the maintainers tomove to another provider e.g. Github, since Sourceforge is know to perform feats of Account hijacking and Malware insertion.

Source: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2015/q2/194beoroldblack
There seems to be further movement on this issue suggesting Sourceforge are backtracking on these actions
See http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=18460

Whether one can now totally trust them from now on is another question.