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So the new staff is: * a deluded President (rasengan) picking grandiose self-titles * a head of training who was fired from Rizon for leaking user data (foxy)

So the new staff is: * a deluded President (rasengan) picking grandiose self-titles * a head of training who was fired from Rizon for leaking user data (foxy) * someone who wants to build a pan-irc surveillance apparatus (bagira) [1] * someone who was ejected from the IRCv3 working group for persistent harrassment (eskimo) [2] and they all have access to user data, including being able to see through cloaks to real connection addresses, and user emails. Top it off with an Alpine Linux team lead who taken a staff role to see if it could be saved and found it "unsalvageable". [3] It's not looking good. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210523224209/https://phanes.silogroup.org/vae-victis/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210523224209/https://phanes.si... [2]: https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3.github.io/issues/265 https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3.github.io/issues/265 [3]: https://twitter.com/ariadneconill/status/1396909867563114502 https://twitter.com/ariadneconill/status/1396909867563114502

immibis 5y ago
You got any more information on that IRCthulu thing (the pan-irc surveillance apparatus)? Even the archives of his blog don't have much info. What was he trying to do, specifically?
- abstractbeliefs 5y ago
  The intention was to build a system that could ingest and analyse every single irc message sent, in realtime, in order to persecute his perceived attackers. There's little written up about it, but you can read the malicious intent in a number of blog posts. The most technical information I understand is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180105031259/https://phanes.silogroup.org/2017/10/update-on-ircthulu/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180105031259/https://phanes.si... Yes, 2017. He's been at this for years and is known on every network, so Andrew Lee has no excuse to pretend he isn't aware of the person he has elevated to a staff position with powerful tools to get up to no good with.
- throw4499332 5y ago
  There is some more information at https://phanes.silogroup.org/a-thousand-years-of-ircthulu/ https://phanes.silogroup.org/a-thousand-years-of-ircthulu/ (https://archive.is/ETvoD https://archive.is/ETvoD) and https://github.com/cmpunches/Tentabot https://github.com/cmpunches/Tentabot
techrat 5y ago
Every channel on Freenode that mentioned 'libera' in any capacity has been joined by a bot, had the topic renamed, ownership removed, all users deopped/unvoiced and all bans cleared. Something that was against Freenode policy... until yesterday. They also nuked private channels that were being used for Wikimedia and Wikipedia's editor communications. https://pastebin.com/S2sDiiPE https://pastebin.com/S2sDiiPE Clown Prince wants to be a Dictator.
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immibis 5y ago

You got any more information on that IRCthulu thing (the pan-irc surveillance apparatus)? Even the archives of his blog don't have much info. What was he trying to do, specifically?

abstractbeliefs 5y ago
The intention was to build a system that could ingest and analyse every single irc message sent, in realtime, in order to persecute his perceived attackers. There's little written up about it, but you can read the malicious intent in a number of blog posts. The most technical information I understand is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180105031259/https://phanes.silogroup.org/2017/10/update-on-ircthulu/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180105031259/https://phanes.si... Yes, 2017. He's been at this for years and is known on every network, so Andrew Lee has no excuse to pretend he isn't aware of the person he has elevated to a staff position with powerful tools to get up to no good with.
throw4499332 5y ago
There is some more information at https://phanes.silogroup.org/a-thousand-years-of-ircthulu/ https://phanes.silogroup.org/a-thousand-years-of-ircthulu/ (https://archive.is/ETvoD https://archive.is/ETvoD) and https://github.com/cmpunches/Tentabot https://github.com/cmpunches/Tentabot

techrat 5y ago

Every channel on Freenode that mentioned 'libera' in any capacity has been joined by a bot, had the topic renamed, ownership removed, all users deopped/unvoiced and all bans cleared. Something that was against Freenode policy... until yesterday. They also nuked private channels that were being used for Wikimedia and Wikipedia's editor communications. https://pastebin.com/S2sDiiPE https://pastebin.com/S2sDiiPE Clown Prince wants to be a Dictator.

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