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Re:US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private on Saturday January 31, 2026 @05:42PM (#46841649)
According to Kristeligt Dagblad in Denmark, he was using Snapchat: https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/tidligere-superligaspiller...
Re:1Password CLI Vulnerability on Sunday October 05, 2025 @06:28AM (#45480467)
The nightly version(on Linux) is on 38.2.0
Re:RIP Skype on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @06:54AM (#43903674)
That wasn't a zero-click infection attempt. You had to actually click on the link to get infected. This could happen on any service that allows you to send links.
Re:Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know on Monday August 15, 2022 @01:31PM (#32472652)
They'll create a new key and your contacts will be notified that your key has changed.
Re:Microsoft Allegedly Breached on Sunday March 20, 2022 @06:21AM (#30741501)
The screenshot is not cropped and it has a list of the projects affected in the article. I agree the information is still sparse.
Re:Microsoft Allegedly Breached on Sunday March 20, 2022 @06:02AM (#30741428)
It's been leaked from UK intelligence and yesterday Russian war plans were captured that said essentially the same thing:

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/03/2/7327539/

No short of sufficient size yet
Re:After 20 Years of Failure, Kill the TSA on Saturday November 20, 2021 @09:37AM (#29288431)
"Are you guys ready? Okay. Let's roll!"
Isn't that obvious?

An exploit is to encryption as a sword is to a shield.

We don't regulate shields.

Re:The case for banning non-competes on Friday July 16, 2021 @12:03PM (#27857718)
I'll take that combo. Quit on the first day, live on Bali for 2 years.
Re:New Big Eight signing key on Monday June 28, 2021 @10:44AM (#27662644)
SS: The big eight newsgroup hierarchies just had the key that controls group creation and deletion updated to a secure key length.
Re:A Farrago of Freenode Foolery on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @06:27AM (#27526886)
"What was all this about? In three weeks, an IRC network that’s lasted for twenty years was flown into a mountain. Was that the plan all along?

Or is it wrong to ascribe to malice or forethought that which can be more adequately explained by stupidity or drug-fueled mania?"

Events up until May 24th:

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...

After that, at every turn when Andrew Lee has been given the choice between doing the right thing and acting like a comic book villain, he has chosen the latter.

Removed any restraint on staff, tried to bribe FOSSHOST to be the face of his operations, hired known trolls and right-wing extremists as staff.

More materially, he has killed or driven away ##linux, #fsf, #gnu, #archlinux, #gentoo, #fedora, #ubuntu, #wikipedia and OVER 700 MORE PROJECTS:

https://github.com/siraben/freenode-exodus

And he is not done yet. He has announced that soon he will switch the whole network over to a new irc daemon, which he will fail at because he doesn't know how and the people who do won't touch him with a 7-foot pole:

https://www.reddit.com/r/irc/comments/nyp855/new_freenode_ma...

You are correct. This will drive everyone away. Which is why we have graphs like this:

https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php

Freenode is dying and the staff are actively killing it.

Re:Freenode has blocked all IRCCloud users on Sunday June 13, 2021 @03:20PM (#27495440)
Actual quote from Andrew Lee:

[19:44:54] <@root> mst: If you really need a comment, just say root said, "fck irc cloud"

Full logs:

https://dpaste.com/9WAUTQ34B

Re:Freenode has blocked all IRCCloud users on Sunday June 13, 2021 @03:16PM (#27495399)
According to this tweet, the ban was not a mistake:

https://mobile.twitter.com/daemon404/status/1404153038978306...

"Connection closed unexpectedly: You are banned from this server- IRCCloud is no longer welcome on freenode (2021/6/13 12.46)"

Re:FSF and GNU channels seized by Freenode staff on Sunday June 13, 2021 @03:46AM (#27490656)
Having decided to move their channels to Libera, with a final transition date of June 25th, the Free Software Foundation channels were seized by freenode staff early today.
Re:Fosshost-Freenode Partnership Discontinued on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:34PM (#27487603)
Staff continuing on as freenode staff is really dodgy, especially now that #python was just manually hijacked in the last 24 hours and Python foundation staff klined. Not a good look to be in such company.
Re:Fosshost-Freenode Partnership Discontinued on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:08PM (#27487446)
Fosshost just announced that they have discontinued the previously announced partnership with freenode.

Previously:

Fosshost Enters Partnership with Freenode

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27366364

Freenode and Fosshost Partner to Empower FOSS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371829

Re:Freenode service outage leaks passwords on Thursday June 10, 2021 @12:44AM (#27456743)
An outage of the nickserv IRC service on freenode, combined with the "nickserv" username not being reserved for services, caused widespread leaks of passwords on freenode to unknown parties. Freenode is responding by quieting people who ask uncomfortable questions.

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