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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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      The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
  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. 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 Fly+Swatter · · Score: 2

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

  5. Prime numbers by aglider · · Score: 2

    Interesting clue they are!

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    Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
  6. 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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    ôó
    1. 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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      Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
    2. 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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      They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
  7. 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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    If a pion (n-) collides with a proton in the woods & noone is there to hear it, does lamdba decay into the source pa
  8. Re:SystemD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, this is an April Fools

  9. 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.

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

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

  11. 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.

  12. 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/...

  13. 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.