OT: What's up with the starship?

[micahel at gmail.com]

r... at yahoo.com wrote:

> > > 5. Verifying that such a thing has not happened can be very
> > > difficult, particularly if the date and other details of the
> > > compromise cannot be accurately determined.
> >
> > I guess you should find out from the author of whatever you downloaded
> > what the checksums should have been for what you downloaded and check
> > that against what you downloaded.
> >
> > If you don't still have the downloaded files, I can tell you what the
> > md5's of the files in the back up are.
>
> I don't think that would help in the case of Pywin32 since the
> Sourceforge dates for build 210 are 9/22.
> I emailed Mark Hammond but have not heard anything back yet.

In the case of pywin32, are you at all sure that you actually
downloaded anything from starship.python.net?  AFAICT all the files are
now hosted on sf, and there doesn't seem to be any vaguely new files in
the backup of /home/www.

Cheers,
mwh