The Liberation of Freenode, Part 12
Sunday, June 25th, 2006 at 1:44 amAbout two hours ago Freenode completely shut down due to a security issue: someone managed to log in to one of the servers as a privileged oper, either as lilo himself, or another oper that lilo has given priviledges to, and caused all the servers to go offline (probably via /squit).
Currently, I am not sure how this happened (though I have several theories on how, and by whom), but I would like to request that this never happen again. This is a very immature way to deal with Rob’s actions, and is not solving the problem. In fact, this is probably helping to undo all the work I’ve put into trying to help the community deal with Rob’s actions.
As much as I dislike Rob, and what he does, and how he abuses his position at Freenode and the PDPC for personal gain, stooping that low to take the entire network down is something that only an idiot would do. Honestly, I hope Rob finds you and has the FBI put your ass in jail.
Update: A blow by blow account of what happened is available from Tmandry. Also, someone has taken credit for doing this, on the Slashdot article about it.
There are eleven previous posts, I suggest you read them.
…. You guys are fucking stupid. WHY ARE YOU AGAINST ROB?!
While certianly don’t condone the actions which took place regarding freenode the other night, I have to say that it most likely helped your position. Lilo has proved time and time again that he is not competent to manage the network.
The community paid him what, some $18,000 to manage the network? All that money, and the network gets compromised constantly. Bottom line, lilo is a single point of failure for the entire network. Lilo is the single biggest liability. His lack of proper security practice and his tendency to abuse his status makes freenode one of the worst places you could host your project discussions on.
So sure, it’s not cool when losers hack and slash away at services on the net, but at least it highlights that not only is lilo a jerk he is also clueless about security.
I second that, I wish Rob and the FBI the very best in their efforts.