[freenet-chat] freenode compromized

[Matthew Toseland]

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/25/1440236&from=rss

"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."
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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