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#IRC Please get away from Freenode as soon as you can, the hostile takeover has devolved into a DNS typosquatting attack against libera.chat and no matter what you think of the new Freenode administration in general, this isn't right.

mhoye

2021-07-08 20:05:11


Just typo'ed a servername while reconnecting to an IRC channel, and accidentally put in libera dot net instead of the correct dot chat, and you wouldn't believe where I found myself: Back on Freenode. Who've apparently secured that domain, and are using it to try to trick people back on to their services.

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Zoot Allures
I don't mess with IRC.....as that's before "my" time
Spencer
Jesus, that's just next-level scummery.
grin
Well, except it may mean as well that you data is safe now from the dangers of being deleted by unauthorized people like you. 🤷
Zoot Allures
Yeah I've noticed there's an awful lot of DNS typosquatting going on as of the last few years...
And I think at least some of it is because the current DNS system is getting pretty packed up, and might cost thousands and thousands of dollars to get a meaningful domain name, since all the domain name speculators got into the business........

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