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Freenode Network Hijacked, Passwords Compromised?
tmandry writes "The world's largest FOSS IRC network, FreeNode, was hijacked (for lack of a better term) by someone who somehow got a hold of the privileges of Robert Levin, AKA lilo, the head honcho of FreeNode and its parent organization, PDPC. To make matters worse, the passwords of many users may have been compromised by someone posing as NickServ, the service that most clients are configured to send a password to upon connecting, while they reconnected to the servers that hadn't been killed. Of course, if someone was able to nab lilo's password, every user password may have been ripe for the taking. The details are still unknown, but these events raise scary questions about the actual security of FreeNode and other organizations like it."
THANK YOU for this. These idiotic posts by people who think they know what they're talking about are pissing me off.
this reminds me of when I first got into internet communities, the first messageboard I ever joined was doomworld.com. That is one of the most strict, tight-assed boards out there probably, and I'm glad thats the first one I joined now, because although I didnt realize it then, better to learn tough then to join some board where everyone has 500x500 avatars and every post is just a smiley. Doomworld doesnt even have smileys! We just have ASCII characters that stay that way when you post! haha anyways I think I see where you're coming from. also i should note that on Doomworld I'm one of the top 50 posters and probably pust thier limits to the max out of any other top poster on the board. So heh, I'm far from perfect in thier eyes but I'm a helluva lot better than I'd be somewhere else.
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