World writable tarballs

From: Mark Rosenstand <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:18:06 +0200

Hi,

It seems that at least the content of the 2.6.16 tarball is world
writable if extracted with GNU tar as an privileged user.

Is this on purpose in order to prove some point?

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