[Scummvm-devel] IRC Channel Key Enabled Due to Spambots
D G Turner
d.g.turner at ntlworld.com
Wed Aug 1 17:16:06 CEST 2018
All,
Due to the current spambot attack on freenode, we have had to make
some changes to the IRC channel configuration:
https://freenode.net/news/spambot-attack
This is now set as +s (secret) which prevents #scummvm being listed
in channel list, and +k (key) has been set which adds a channel key
(password) for joining. The key is currently set to "scummvm".
This has been noted for users in the website and wiki, and am sending
this e-mail to ensure visibility.
Most of the channel bots such as Github services' commit hooks,
Buildbot's IRC bot have been updated to deal with this and any
bots active in channel will be fine until they need to rejoin.
These changes should hopefully prevent all the current spambots
and we can review removing the channel password if needed once
the current botnet attack has abated.
Thanks,
David Turner
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