A security update from the Freenode infrastructure team

Posted Dec 21, 2016 9:33 UTC (Wed) by alanjwylie (subscriber, #4794)
Parent article: A security update from the Freenode infrastructure team

This comment suggests that the breach took place before the middle of November and that Bryan's account has been compromised.

https://bryanostergaard.com/?p=1

LWN editorial addition: following that link is not recommended, especially in any sort of professional setting. It would have been better not to post it.

A security update from the Freenode infrastructure team

Posted Dec 21, 2016 12:56 UTC (Wed) by nowster (subscriber, #67) [Link] (1 responses)

Perhaps that link might not be SFW now.

A security update from the Freenode infrastructure team

Posted Dec 25, 2016 0:33 UTC (Sun) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

I don't know what people in the US have against harmless foot fetishists.

A security update from the Freenode infrastructure team

Posted Dec 21, 2016 14:16 UTC (Wed) by chirlu (guest, #89906) [Link] (1 responses)

It doesn’t look like a legitimate site was taken over and defaced. It’s more likely someone registered this domain afresh in kloeri’s name (note that it is registered with one of those “bullet-proof” registrars) and set up a blog instance on it with this single entry. In order to do that, there is no need to steal a password.

A security update from the Freenode infrastructure team

Posted Dec 21, 2016 15:57 UTC (Wed) by Klavs (guest, #10563) [Link]

thats exactly what happened.. its incredible what some people think they're entitled to do, against others - who just try to help the community. I'm wondering if .com registrar does not have a proper complaint handling instance, where one can lodge a complaint and get them to delete the domain - or just hand it over to kloeri. (like what the DK registrar does in such issues). If anyone knows of good ways to handle it (without it being time consuming.. :) - let me know, and I'll forward info to kloeri.