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CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked

Posted by Soulskill on from the greed-is-the-silent-enemy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The team behind CyanogenMod, one of the most popular community-driven, Android-based operating systems for phones and tablets, has announced that they're moving to Cyanogenmod.org after their .com domain was held ransom by a community member. He had been in control of the .com domain name for some time, but the team found out he was impersonating Cyanogen to make deals with community sites. When they removed his access to other parts of the CM infrastructure, he demanded $10,000 to relinquish control of the domain and threatened to change the DNS entries. When they refused to pay, he went through with it. The team is now disputing control of the domain with ICANN. They said, 'We will continue to be open about the what, when, how, but unfortunately, we may never know the "why" – though greed comes to mind. The team itself has not made a profit off of CM and that is not our goal. But to have one of our own betray the community like this is beyond our comprehension.'"

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  1. Please out the guy by Freshly+Exhumed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Benedict Judas Quisling is unable to take your call at this moment, but if you leave your site name he'll remove it from DNS as soon as possible.

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    I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
  2. Wait. Oh my god. by p0p0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I only just now realized that the rom is called cyanogenmod and not cryogenmod. Christ, I've been calling it cryogenmod for over a year!

    1. Re:Wait. Oh my god. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's OK, I was calling those little cups of coffee "Expresso" for something like 3 years, until I realised what an idiot I was...

  3. Re:Nice guy! by KiloByte · · Score: 5, Funny

    this is why I use apple - you never know who hijacked a domain and is now serving malicous software packages.

    Judging from stories here on /. and elsewhere, indeed apple.com is serving malicious software packages through its app store.

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    The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
  4. Re:This would seem to be the guy by blind+biker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Deveci, Ahmet webmaster@metserve.com
    Third Floor
    152-156 Lower Clapton Road
    Clapton, London E5 0QJ
    GB
    +442081232629

    Please do not call that phonenumber now, because it's very late in the evening in the UK, and if you call that number, you could cause serious annoyance to Ahmet.

    Especially don't call it repeatedly, and above all, do not make prank calls.

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