danshearer

Just before 0900 UTC+1, there was this broadcast report of a privacy breach:

08:54 -!- ChanServ [ChanServ@services.] has quit [Killed (grumble (My fellow staff so-called 'friends' are about to hand over account data to a non-staff member. If you care about your data, drop your NickServ account NOW before that happens.))]

Freenode has a history of community communication when things go wrong. There has been only official silence on this so far. There is heated discussion on #freenode.

Direct links are broken on Planet Freenode's blog, but the article "Changes to the organisational structure of freenode" on the Staffblog seems related: https://spamcheck.freenode.net/ .

I worked with Rob Levin (lilo) back in the day, and I'm moving on from Freenode.