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Freenode Hijacked (Part 2)

posted by takyon on Sunday May 23 2021, @09:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the Naruto-fan dept.

Freenode hijacked

Free Software Projects Defenestrate The Freenode IRC Network
Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management
Developers flee Freenode after 'takeover' by Korean crown prince
Freenode Debacle Prompts Staff Exodus, New Network
IRC Will Never Die
On freenode and its commitment to FOSS (Andrew Lee's May 19th response)
https://libera.chat/ (new network)

wirelessduck writes:

https://kline.sh/

Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power

wirelessduck writes:

https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse

There have been several allegations of this since the handover of the Freenode infrastructure to its new custodians, but I can now provide a first-hand account of one incident — because I am the victim of it.

A channel which I registered, ##hntop, has been taken over by Andrew Lee (rasengan) without my knowledge or consent.

...

Conclusions. In other words, it appears that a Freenode services admin, presumably rasengan,

  • forcibly dropped the channel and reregistered it so as to put themselves in control of it, and render me no longer in control of it;
  • clearly did this with the express purpose of frustrating an attempt by that channel's founder (me) to relocate it to another IRC network; and
  • cover up the fact that I had sought to do so.

Original Submission #1  Original Submission #2 

 
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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 24 2021, @02:20AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 24 2021, @02:20AM (#1138116)

    double-hash channels mean "You have to be a registered user to join," afaik. Nothing more. You have to log in with nickserv to join the channel.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 24 2021, @10:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 24 2021, @10:57AM (#1138194)

    Nope, any channel on Freenode can be set to require a registered account to join, or to speak, among many other flags that can be set by channel ops.
    The naming policy is exactly as requerdanos said: https://freenode.net/policies#channel-ownership [freenode.net]

    Channels on freenode fall into one of two categories. Primary channels, which begin with a single # character, are reserved for on-topic projects. If you’d like to take over one of these channels, then you’ll need to be associated in some way with the project in question.
    ...
    Topical, or ‘about’ channels, begin with two # characters, and these are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis to the first person who registers it with ChanServ.

    Note: Aspects of the policy document appears to be actively being changed by the "new owners", but these two policies have not changed with the recent shenanigans.