UPDATE : Yes, this was an April Fools Joke. Some of you fell for it, some didn’t. There’s still time to complete the quiz and get an April Fool cloak, if you can figure out where to go…
13 thoughts on “Network wide policy privacy change”
NOTSOFREENODE!
authoized government entities gave it away
Oceania is at war with Iran. Oceania has always been at war with Iran.
April’s fool, not very funny. Cannot find out what the base64 at the end means:
!;S42U=\3kU5Tpq.
Nice picture you got of me there.
Twilight Sparkle. Nice touch.
Is this for real? Or an April Fools joke?
From Toby’s link:
the NSA has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls
I am shocked and dismayed that the NSA did not see fit to include IRC in their data collection. Here at freenode, we are eager to cooperate with anti-terrorism efforts, and suggest that you lobby your government agencies, politicians, and local hot-dog stands for a remedy to this oversight.
Yeah, Comic Sans kinda uncovered it…
The text at the end is ROT13-encrypted BASE64-encoded text.
NOTSOFREENODE!
authoized government entities gave it away
Oceania is at war with Iran. Oceania has always been at war with Iran.
Comic Sans. Nice touch.
Government Entities Include Google!
ITS A CONSPIRACY!
It would be funnier if it were not already true.
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/21/exposed_inside_the_nsas_largest_and
April’s fool, not very funny. Cannot find out what the base64 at the end means:
!;S42U=\3kU5Tpq.
Nice picture you got of me there.
Twilight Sparkle. Nice touch.
Is this for real? Or an April Fools joke?
From Toby’s link:
I am shocked and dismayed that the NSA did not see fit to include IRC in their data collection. Here at freenode, we are eager to cooperate with anti-terrorism efforts, and suggest that you lobby your government agencies, politicians, and local hot-dog stands for a remedy to this oversight.
Yeah, Comic Sans kinda uncovered it…
The text at the end is ROT13-encrypted BASE64-encoded text.
ITucplOwnTShozIfVT1cM2u0VTWyVPZwp3EupaD=
Decrypted ROT13:
VGhpcyBjaGFubmVsIG1pZ2h0IGJlICMjc3RhcnQ=
BASE64 decoded:
This channel might be ##start