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Re: CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org

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Post by michaelhoffman »

facorreia wrote: post #67
bsenftner wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell us the name of this rogue. I don't want to ever do business with the person, but how to know?

It's public via whois.

  Registrant:
   MetServe Enterprises Limited
   Kemp House
   City Road
   London, London EC1V 2NX
   GB
  
   Domain name: CYANOGENMOD.COM
  
  
   Administrative Contact:
      Enterprises, MetServe  info@metserve.com
      Kemp House
      City Road
      London, London EC1V 2NX
      GB
      +44.2081232629
   Technical Contact:
      Enterprises, MetServe  info@metserve.com
      Kemp House
      City Road
      London, London EC1V 2NX
      GB
      +44.2081232629
Doesn't have a person's name though.

Re: CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org

#72

Post by BHSPitMonkey »

cookiecaper wrote: post #61

This is pretty scary now that CM has started to do OTA updates again. What server is that mechanism checking and trusting? Is there any cryptographic verification for update packages? Whose keys are used (the keys of the bad dude?)?

This is definitely important to find out in the wake of this incident, and I'm anxious to learn the answers myself. That said, CyanogenMod distributes its builds through a separate dedicated site [1] that appears to be unaffected.

[1] http://get.cm/

Re: CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org

#73

Post by facorreia »

michaelhoffman wrote: post #71
facorreia wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's public via whois.

Registrant: MetServe Enterprises Limited Kemp House City Road London, London EC1V 2NX GB Domain name: CYANOGENMOD.COM Administrative Contact: Enterprises, MetServe info@metserve.com Kemp House City Road London, London EC1V 2NX GB +44.2081232629 Technical Contact: Enterprises, MetServe info@metserve.com Kemp House City Road London, London EC1V 2NX GB +44.2081232629 Doesn't have a person's name though.

That was available through www.metserve.com but the site is offline now. I assume it's related.

Anyway he is having a conversation with the CM team over Twitter.

Re: CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org

#75

Post by drivebyacct2 »

VMG wrote: post #46

Why are large parts of the android custom ROM community unprofessional and immature? I always shiver a little if I have to dive into xda-forums, but this takes it to the next level. Puts all the actual hard working developers in a bad light.

Something about a sufficiently large group of people and general idiocy.

Re: CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org

#76

Post by lambda »

lambda wrote: post #24
blhack wrote: post #22

The title was NOT sensationalist, and the change here is a loss of information. They aren't "transitioning" to a .org, their domain was stolen. the .com shouldn't be trusted at this point, as it has apparently been taken over by some rogue former-team-member. edit: thanks to the mod that fixed it :)

The new title is the same as the post title on Cyanogenmod.org. The change doesn't really lose information; almost everything in the original title was false. Perhaps a better title would be "cyanogenmod.com hijacked by rogue admin, transitions to cyanogenmod.org". But the usual policy here when changing titles is to change it to the original title of the article, which is what it is now.

Ah, the new title it much better; has all of the relevant information, and is correct. Great! Thanks to the admins!

Re: CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org

#77

Post by philp »

facorreia wrote: post #68
philp wrote: post #13

Does anybody know how this "rogue" webmaster took undue advantage of the CyanogenMod brand? The Facebook post states something about referral deals with community sites. Any idea what that would mean in practical terms? Just curious.

According to the conversation linked to by CM member koush[1], in one instance he approached a CM distributor requesting a 'contribution': "Hi, we noticed that you are selling these cards with CyanogenMod builds. We do not however seem to have any agreements in place for this and feel it's only fair that you start contributing to the CyanogenMod project to continue selling your products." [1] https://twitter.com/kous…

Interesting. Thank you.

Re: CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org

#78

Post by entropy_ »

michaelhoffman wrote: post #71
facorreia wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's public via whois.

Registrant: MetServe Enterprises Limited Kemp House City Road London, London EC1V 2NX GB Domain name: CYANOGENMOD.COM Administrative Contact: Enterprises, MetServe info@metserve.com Kemp House City Road London, London EC1V 2NX GB +44.2081232629 Technical Contact: Enterprises, MetServe info@metserve.com Kemp House City Road London, London EC1V 2NX GB +44.2081232629 Doesn't have a person's name though.

Well, this conversation: https://twitter.com/koush/status/268836995890028544 has a guy called Ahmet Deveci who seems to be going at it with Koush about giving back DNS domains.

His profile on twitter says "Entrepreneur, with a passion for website design, development and all things technology. Director of Metserve Enterprises. London, UK · http://www.mradeveci.com

That seems like the guy.

Re: CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org

#79

Post by entropy_ »

facorreia wrote: post #73
michaelhoffman wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Registrant: MetServe Enterprises Limited Kemp House City Road London, London EC1V 2NX GB Domain name: CYANOGENMOD.COM Administrative Contact: Enterprises, MetServe info@metserve.com Kemp House City Road London, London EC1V 2NX GB +44.2081232629 Technical Contact: Enterprises, MetServe info@metserve.com Kemp House City Road London, London EC1V 2NX GB +44.2081232629 Doesn't have a person's name though.

That was available through www.metserve.com but the site is offline now. I assume it's related. Anyway he is having a conversation with the CM team over Twitter.

Conversation... More like public poo flinging. I mean seriously? Use email or something, it's really unprofessional to "talk" these things out over twitter

Re: CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org

#80

Post by pg »

cdr wrote: post #40
blhack wrote: post #22

The title was NOT sensationalist, and the change here is a loss of information. They aren't "transitioning" to a .org, their domain was stolen. the .com shouldn't be trusted at this point, as it has apparently been taken over by some rogue former-team-member. edit: thanks to the mod that fixed it :)

There is, so far as I've discerned, an automated bot running that changes submission titles to the HTML title of the URL. No human intervention, no human judgment.

That's not true; tis all humans; but as far as I'm concerned that's the ultimate compliment to their speed and lack of bias.
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