Re: bzip.org

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 9:17 AM, cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/23/2018 4:15 AM, Roland DOT Schwingel AT onevision DOT com wrote:
>
> Please keep on the conversation on the list.
>
>>
>>> Sadly our beloved http://www.bzip.org <http://www.bzip.org/>has hit
>> the bit bucket.  Does
>>> anyone know where upstream support for bzip2 went?
>>
>> It appears that bzip.org is just coming back (as announced on the
>> valgrind list)
>>
>
> So it is, and from there we find:
>
> ```
> Find the latest version on SourceForge.
>
> Author admin
> Posted on 22 September 2018
> ```

Something looks fishy to me.

I don't think an old school guy like Sewards would be running a
WordPress site. They would use plain HTML 3 crafted in Vi or Emacs.
They would also probably avoid SourceForge due to the malware
packaging of old.

Finally, WHOIS does not indicate Sewards is the owner. They are still
showing register.com.

I would not trust any downloads from that site.

Jeff

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