Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations

Hours after the release of Ubuntu 23.10, Canonical has pulled the ISOs and is re-spinning them after user-submitted translations for the Ubuntu installer turned out to contain hate speech...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.10-Recalled

[fong38]

What's even the point of doing something like this?

[Malsabku]

Seems to be related to the UKraine-Russia war:

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/commit/01b9616a7472a08434ead9e046e9f9b02514ab8a

[Solaris17]

From a quick glance it looks like it starts around line 455 here: https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-...78221e459dL464

[V1tol]

Seems to be related to the UKraine-Russia war:
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-...e9f9b02514ab8a

Surprisingly, no. Though it was Ukrainian translation, it contained nothing about Russia but things about Palestine and Israel for some reason.

[darcagn]

If you copy the last 50 lines or so of that ubuntu_bootstrap_uk.arb removed in the above github commit, and paste into google translate, you'll see some juvenile early internet style trolling related to Israel/Palestine.

[pieman]

yeah i translated it with google translate and its all antisemitism. such a shame.

[gnattu]

Thanks god it is only translations not malicious code that is triggered when the IP is from a certain country.

[wswartzendruber]

The Middle East sure does get people riled up.

[pieman]

some people are saying in the kubuntu 23.10 live-cd a plasma mouse cursor name is "oxygen zion"