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The Devuan website looks hacked. Given the timing, it's probable that it is an April's Fools Joke, though it's not clear if it's the Devuan devs' April's Fools joke or the hackers' April's Fools Joke. In any case, it's probably better for any Devuan users to avoid updating their packages and keep an eye out for signs of compromise.
If it is a joke by the devs, then they are taking it pretty far since official channels of communication say that the hack is real (but package are not compromised): https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20190331.191104.169aaf9a.en.html
In any case, it's a warning about taking Devuan too seriously; either they don't know how to secure their servers, or they don't know what it means to take a joke too far.
https://www.devuan.org/ redirects to https://www.devuan.org/pwned.html which displays:
_ _ THE WEB SUCKS -- JAVASCRIPT SUCKS -- BROWSERS SUCK
_ ___ ___ ___ ___ | | _ _ | |
/ _`| _| -_) -_) \ | \ / _` || _| GOPHER IS THE WAY -- GOPHER IS THE FUTURE
\__,|_| \___|\___|_|_| |_|_|\__,_| \__|
___/_ _
| | _ _ __ | |_ ___ ___ ___ ********************************************************************
| \ / _` |/ _|| | // -_)| _|(_-< ****** DEVUAN.ORG HAS BEEN PWNED ******
|_|_|\__,_|\__||_\_\\___||_| (___/ ********************************************************************
.................................
...........##...#...#####............ WE TURNED ALL DEVUAN'S SHITTY WEBSITES INTO PROPER GOPHERHOLES
...........###...#.##########............
...........####....###.......##............ ********************************************************************
............#############......##..............
............#######################.............. *** STOP THE MADNESS -- GET YOURSELF A GOPHER CLIENT ***
.............#######################...............
.............#######################................. WWW -> gopher://www.devuan.org
.............#####################.....#............. GIT -> gopher://git.devuan.org
...............###############.........######.......... ISOS -> gopher://files.devuan.org
........######.##############.........#########........ INFO -> gopher://pkginfo.devuan.org
.......######################.......############......... BTS -> gopher://bugs.devuan.org
......########################################........... STATS -> gopher://popcon.devuan.org
.......#####################################.............
........#################################................ *** GOPHER IS STILL ALIVE AND KICKING -- JUST CHECK IT OUT ***
..........###########################....................
.............##################.......................... gopher://gopherproject.org -- gopher://gopher.floodgap.com
......................................#####.............. gopher://bitreich.org - gopher://sdf.org - gopher://gopherpedia.com
...............................###########............. gopher://circumlunar.space - gopher://gopher.quux.org
.............................###########...............
.............########################.....#######.... *** KISS PORT 80 GOODBYE -- JOIN THE REVOLUTION ON PORT 70 ***
.............#####....###############...#########....
............#####.....############################. *******************************************************************
.######.....####################################.
.#######....##################################. WE KNOW YOU -- WE FOLLOW YOU -- WE OWN YOUR COMPUTERS
..#######...###############################..
..######..#############################.. ***** ANY RESISTANCE IS FUTILE *****
...###############################...
...#########################... WE ARE GREEN HAT HACKERS: WE CAME, WE SAW, WE KICKED YOUR ASS
......#############......
..................... *******************************************************************IF YOU LUSER CAN'T USE A GOPHER CLIENT, USE THE PROXY AT:
https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gwBOTH 7779847 AND 1554080659 ARE PRIME NUMBERS
(Score: 3, Informative) by hendrikboom on Monday April 01 2019, @11:16PM (1 child)
The culprit has confessed. He is a core developer who has been with the project from the beginning. He apologized, says the joke went too far, certainly was taken far beyond what he expected. He tells us he has learned from the experience, and will never do anything like it again. He further point out that no critical Devuan infrastructure was tampered with in any way -- all that happened was an html redirect of the main page to an alternative server with the fake page.
I'm told that the gopher links on the fake front page actually did point to valid Devuan infrastructure, though I haven't been able to check this myself.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday April 02 2019, @04:31AM
I checked. And they did.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr