The REAL "fancy pants"

[Manjul Apratim]

Whilst objections are being raised over a perfectly good Google solution,
there is a REAL "fancy pants" who keeps messing up
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UserDocumentation. Apparently he has the
nick "SammyWilson", and he inserts spurious links to some "loan
modification" web page in there - this has happened twice in the past few
days already, and thanks to the vigilant Ubuntu warriors out there such spam
has not prevailed for long. What bothers me is not the fact that the page
was vandalized, but that changing something on help.ubuntu.com requires a
Launchpad account, and this entity's account does not exist now, but
apparently did when the page was exploited. I remember seeing the discussion
that Launchpad was hard to register at in the first place, particularly
because of the Ubuntu Code of Conduct, and I remember that that was my first
tryst with GPG keys. So either this person goes through a lot of trouble
each time, or there is a security flaw in Launchpad, and either issue is a
cause for concern!

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Manjul Apratim
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