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Devuan.org Now Points To 'Pwned' Page With Gopher URLs (devuan.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the old-school-TCP/IP dept.

"DEVUAN.ORG HAS BEEN PWNED" reads a new message at the home page for Devuan (a fork of Debian without systemd) -- which re-redirects to a new page named pwned.html, reports Slashdot reader DevNull127: In all capital letters, its carefully-indented message (complete with an ascii-art logo) now informs visitors that "the web sucks -- JavaScript sucks -- browsers suck." Posting the URLs to several gopher sites, it adds that "Gopher is the way -- gopher is the future."

"Kiss port 80 goodbye. Join the revolution on port 70."
The attackers identify themselves as "Green Hat Hackers," a term generally understood to mean ambitious newbie hackers who want to improve their skills. "Stop the madness," continues their message, which appeared just hours before the first day of April.

"Get yourself a gopher client."

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  1. Hahaha by ze_jua · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good joke. Some work was done...

    1. Re:Hahaha by KiloByte · · Score: 2

      You'd want sacc to view it -- forg breaks ASCII-art, and OverbiteNX requires non-packaged Onyx, thus is beyond my current amount of shit to give. OverbiteFF used to be good, but is no more.

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    2. Re:Hahaha by CronoCloud · · Score: 1

      The gopher links didn't work in Lynx which surprised me. They aren't even clickable even if you have OverbiteNX installed, I had to copy the link to a new tab.

  2. They're ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... not wrong, y'know?

    "The web sucks -- JavaScript sucks -- browsers suck"

    I agree.

  3. April Fools is now two days long... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It just keeps getting worse!

  4. $#@& April fools off, forever by AbRASiON · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'd have no problem with news editors deliberately posting that shit to get written warnings. It's a god damn scourge on the internet.

    Looks like I'm getting some extra work done today.
    Time to close the browser for near 48 hours (time zones drag this garbage out longer)

    1. Re:$#@& April fools off, forever by Delphix · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It seems this actually hacked, and not an April Fool's joke. https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/...

  5. Gopher rules!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Assuming this is a joke one hell of an irresponsible way to go about implementing it.

    Redirects are being applied to all of their subdomains not just main website and all resources are being unconditionally blanket redirected. Even requests for things that are not HTML documents.

    The site also advertises quad A records but IPv6 access is being blocked.

  6. Just like most other holidays, feature creep. by Fly+Swatter · · Score: 2

    Christmas is from mid November through December.
    Black Friday is really no more as retailers play leap frog to beat the others, about one day earlier each year.
    Now April Fools day is on March 31st.....

    1. Re:Just like most other holidays, feature creep. by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Now April Fools day is on March 31st.....

      Posted by Fly Swatter ( 30498 ) on Monday April 01, 2019 @07:44AM

    2. Re:Just like most other holidays, feature creep. by MrKaos · · Score: 1

      April fools day is perpetually in the future.

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    3. Re:Just like most other holidays, feature creep. by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      Posted by Anonymous Coward on 04:14 PM March 31st, 2019

    4. Re:Just like most other holidays, feature creep. by Fly+Swatter · · Score: 2

      Yea, I lazily checked UTC to make sure too.... oops; silly time zones, some are +14:00.

  7. Looking for gopher client by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Checked altavista. Seems to take foeva!

    1. Re:Looking for gopher client by vbdasc · · Score: 1

      I could send you the last one I've actually used, but sadly it's for Windows 3.1 .

  8. Prime numbers by aglider · · Score: 2

    Interesting clue they are!

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  9. Looking for good gopher client by binarybum · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where can I find a good gopher client to joint the revolution? I'm looking for one that is free with lots of ads so I feel comfortable.

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    1. Re:Looking for good gopher client by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1

      You could probably find some source code for old clients but I doubt many would compile under modern day Linux.

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    2. Re:Looking for good gopher client by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Where can I find a good gopher client to joint the revolution?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gopher_clients

    3. Re:Looking for good gopher client by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Where can I find a good gopher client to joint the revolution?

      On Debian and Devuan: apt-get install gopher

    4. Re:Looking for good gopher client by i.r.id10t · · Score: 2

      Where indeed can you get gopher today...

      root@darkstar:~# apt-get install gopher
      Reading package lists... Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information... Done
      The following NEW packages will be installed:
          gopher
      0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded.
      Need to get 89.5 kB of archives.
      After this operation, 275 kB of additional disk space will be used.
      Get:1 http://mirror.atlantic.net/ubu... bionic/universe amd64 gopher amd64 3.0.16 [89.5 kB]
      Fetched 89.5 kB in 1s (105 kB/s)
      Selecting previously unselected package gopher.
      (Reading database ... 397011 files and directories currently installed.)
      Preparing to unpack .../gopher_3.0.16_amd64.deb ...
      Unpacking gopher (3.0.16) ...
      Setting up gopher (3.0.16) ...
      Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
      root@darkstar:~#

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    5. Re:Looking for good gopher client by dwywit · · Score: 2

      "After this operation, 275 kB of additional disk space will be used."

      Talk about software bloat.........

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    6. Re:Looking for good gopher client by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Just wait a while for systemd-gopher to be included in the next release. Unfortunately you won't find it in the Devuan repo.

    7. Re:Looking for good gopher client by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      At one point in time, most web browsers actually had built in gopher clients so you could integrate both forms of hypertext systems together.

      Done right you could switch between the two and be none the wiser. Other than the search engines being Archie characters, that is.

    8. Re:Looking for good gopher client by CronoCloud · · Score: 1

      Lynx can do gopher, though the gopher links on the devuan page aren't clickable in Lynx. You can, however, hit "G" and type the gopher link in.

  10. You kids and your new-fangled gopher... by fzammett · · Score: 2

    If you're not dialing into a BBS at 300 baud to download library files after posting a few stupid forum posts just to get enough credits for that likely fake copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook then I don't know what you're doing.

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    1. Re: You kids and your new-fangled gopher... by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 1

      110 baud is almost exclusively for an upper case only ASR-33 terminal. Even back when I first BBSed, with a DecWriter paper printing terminal I bought at a thrift store, it was at 300 baud. I suppose we could wrangle up a 55 baud Teletype too, if necessary. But the reality is, except in the early electro-mechanical era, it was always 300 baud or greater.

  11. Re:owned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    only when booted with systemd to wayland

  12. SystemD by darkain · · Score: 1

    I know it has been quite a long time since I've used a Linux distro without SystemD... But was that REALLY what it looked like!? It has been what... five? maybe ten! decades since I switched to SystemD, my memory isn't the best since those dark green times!

    1. Re:SystemD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      No, this is an April Fools

    2. Re:SystemD by darkain · · Score: 2

      WOOSH! https://xkcd.com/1627/

  13. Bad idea to link to compromised website? by Edward+Nardella · · Score: 1

    Most slashdot readers are probably not at risk, but not all are safe. I would have figured that the link in OP would be to a screenshot, but nope, it is directly to the compromised website. While efforts may have been made by the editor at the time of publication to verify a lack of attempted attacks by that website, there is no guarantee that it would remain safe and plenty of reason to assume that it might not. Isn't not spreading suspicious links and emails one of the first things we tell people when giving them basic internet safety advice?

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    1. Re:Bad idea to link to compromised website? by sexybomber · · Score: 3, Informative

      I just looked at the source for the page. It's static HTML with the ASCII art defacement poster enclosed in [pre] tags. There isn't any code there with which one could conceivably conduct an attack.

    2. Re:Bad idea to link to compromised website? by Edward+Nardella · · Score: 1

      While efforts may have been made by the editor at the time of publication to verify a lack of attempted attacks by that website, there is no guarantee that it would remain safe and plenty of reason to assume that it might not.

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      My sig doesn't address Anons, sigs aren't visible to them.
    3. Re:Bad idea to link to compromised website? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      While efforts may have been made by the editor at the time of publication to verify a lack of attempted attacks by that website, there is no guarantee that it would remain safe and plenty of reason to assume that it might not.

      While efforts may have been made by the editor at the time of publication to verify a lack of attempted attacks by that website, there is no guarantee that it would remain safe and plenty of reason to assume that it might not.

      o_O

      are you serious? maybe have a look at the calendar? :-D

    4. Re:Bad idea to link to compromised website? by Edward+Nardella · · Score: 1

      Whoops, still March where I am.

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    5. Re:Bad idea to link to compromised website? by Delphix · · Score: 2

      I know it was pointed out this could be an April's Fools joke, but based on the Devuan developers messages it seems to be actually hacked. Just well timed to pass as a joke. https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/... You're spot on about linking to things like this.

  14. The problem with gopher by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1

    All roads eventually lead you back to Minnesota. But at least the women there are strong, the men good looking, and the children above average.

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    #DeleteChrome
    1. Re:The problem with gopher by EvilSS · · Score: 1

      Unfortunately the University is cheap and prone to killing its own offspring with its greed.

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      I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
  15. Re:Don't spy me! by exomondo · · Score: 1

    Devuan sounds like Debian's non-union, Mexican equivalent.

  16. Re:Don't spy me! by FudRucker · · Score: 1, Interesting

    i tried devuan, it is half-assed and hardly worth the trouble, antiX is a better non-systemd fork of debian, all these non-systemd distros should pool their resources and just come up with 2 or 3 distros to satisfy the users, one distro copycats arch, one distro copycats debian, and one copycats slackware but since slackware is already non-systemd it would be pointless

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  17. That awkward moment.... by peppepz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ....when you realize that you prefer the Gopher version to the average modern website design. I hope they keep it past the 1st of April. It makes me feel younger.

  18. systemd is a lot like gopher by Revek · · Score: 1

    slow to respond and hard to debug.

  19. April 1? by whoever57 · · Score: 1

    It's April 1 somewhere.

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  20. Re: BOTH 7779847 AND 1554080659 ARE PRIME NUMBERS by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 1

    Correction: google is never your friend.

  21. Re:So in simple terms... by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 1

    NetBSD definitely should not be considered a serious distribution. Which really is part of the point.

  22. Re:Don't spy me! by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 1

    Just like Stephen Spielbergo!

  23. Re:Don't spy me! by vbdasc · · Score: 1

    Just install "libpam-elogind-compat" from experimental in buster/sid and you get almost the entire Debian distro without systemd.

  24. Re:Don't spy me! by OolimPhon · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it's that "almost" that is often the problem.

    Usually that's the bit you need for your own activities.

  25. Re:Don't spy me! by jjbenz · · Score: 1

    you mean like Senor Spielbergo?