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  • april fool's

    From tjd@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 2 18:40:10 2019
    just fyi
    on april fool's day
    devuan
    hijacked their web site to gopher. lol

    "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."

    https://forums.craigslist.org/?areaID=103&forumID=1991 https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/b7sxvs/devuans_website_has_been_pwned/

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  • From jeff@21:1/5 to tjd on Tue Apr 2 20:13:32 2019
    On 4/2/19 7:40 PM, tjd wrote:

    "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."

    https://forums.craigslist.org/?areaID=103&forumID=1991 https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/b7sxvs/devuans_website_has_been_pwned/

    Ya, that was nice to see; hope they keep it active.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?H=C3=A9ctor?= Abreu@21:1/5 to jeff on Thu Apr 4 00:05:12 2019
    On 2019-04-03, jeff <jo@no.go> wrote:
    On 4/2/19 7:40 PM, tjd wrote:

    "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."

    https://forums.craigslist.org/?areaID=103&forumID=1991
    https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/b7sxvs/devuans_website_has_been_

    Ya, that was nice to see; hope they keep it active.


    I was surprised to see that the link https://devuan.org/pwned.html is a
    joke, but the gopher:// links listed there are for real.
    --
    Héctor Abreu

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