FreeNode IRC Hijacked?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Regular Ramblings.

[snip]

The world's largest FOSS IRC network, FreeNode, has been (for lack of a
better word) hijacked. The culprit, who went by the nickname ratbert,
seems to have nabbed the privleges of Robert Levin, President and
Executive Director of Peer-Directed Projects Center (FreeNode's parent
organization), AKA lilo. Whew! As if that wasn't enough in itself,
ratbert pushed out an offensive global message and attempted a DCC SEND
exploit. He then proceded to kill and/or k-line every staff member in
sight, including lilo, and brought down quite a few of FreeNode's
servers. This log shows the ominous beginning of the mess:

    -ratbert- [Global notice] I am a fat asshole, who loves abuse, die
    -ratbert- DCC SEND YOUAREALLJUDENLOL

The rest is too broad and too long to log in full, but mainly consists
of FreeNode staff members being killed (with some colorfully
interesting reason messages) and cries of "MAYDAY! MAYDAY!" and other
expressions of terror throughout the many channels of FreeNode.

[snip]

More here:
http://tgmandry.blogspot.com/2006/06/worlds-largest-foss-irc-network.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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