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Town accuses a Linux Distro of Hacking

I found this story on the Register today, detailing a series of correspondence between CentOS and an employee of an Oklahoman Town.  Priceless:

The heartland turned vicious this week when an Oklahoma town threatened to call in the FBI because its web site was hacked by Linux maker Cent OS. Problem is CentOS didn't hack Tuttle's web site at all. The city's hosting provider had simply botched a web server. This tale kicked off yesterday when Tuttle's city manager Jerry Taylor fired off an angry message to the CentOS staff. Taylor had popped onto the city's web site and found the standard Apache server configuration boilerplate that appears with a new web server installation. Taylor seemed to confuse this with a potential hack attack on the bustling town's IT infrastructure."Who gave you permission to invade my website and block me and anyone else from accessing it???," Taylor wrote to CentOS. "Please remove your software immediately before I report it to government officials!! I am the City Manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma."
The entire series of correspondence is available here

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Here's a follow-up to the story I posted here...It seems as though the accuser's now slightly annoyed... Here's his response to the Register

I do not follow instructions that show up when a website that I am not familiar with appears on my computer