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Devuan Site Possibly Hacked

posted by martyb on Monday April 01 2019, @02:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-want-a-pwny! dept.

darkfeline writes:

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/gw

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  • (Score: 2) by srobert on Tuesday April 02 2019, @02:45AM (1 child)

    by srobert (4803) on Tuesday April 02 2019, @02:45AM (#823391)

    Now that headline would be a April Fool's joke.

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  • (Score: 2) by MadTinfoilHatter on Tuesday April 02 2019, @05:00AM

    by MadTinfoilHatter (4635) on Tuesday April 02 2019, @05:00AM (#823454)

    They did that joke a few Aprils ago. It was before Devuan Jessie was even released, they made a post about how they had realized the project wasn't going anywhere, that systemd was the way forward and that they would donate the money the project had recieved to the Pottering Ego Boost Fund (or some such BS). I tried to find a link but couldn't. :-(

    That April fools was actually a bit funny, because it sounded quite plausible in the beginning, only to get increasingly wacky toward the end, so odds were that you would get tagged along in an "Oh, shit! Our best hope to get rid of systemd is gone!"-mode only to realize you had been trolled by the time you got to the Pottering fund.