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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
Zoot Allures  
I don't mess with IRC.....as that's before "my" time
Spencer
Spencer  
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Jesus, that's just next-level scummery.
grin
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. :shrug
Zoot Allures
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........
grin
grin  
Except it's going on for 10+ years now. 🙁
Zoot Allures
Zoot Allures  
It's been going on longer than that.......Heck I've been seeing it since 1994
grin
grin  
Typosquatting as a business? I feel 1994 a bit of a stretching here. 😁

I think I observed it being present en masse was about 2000.
Zoot Allures
Zoot Allures  
no domain name speculating.....
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