Hi, I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, I think someone is attempting a takeover of sdf-eu.org by social engineering.

A user named wheel is posting on bboard that smj has passed away, with a link to an obituary as well as a bunch of extremely unhinged stuff about soviets, russians, and smj owing them money?

uinfo says:

  ~ uinfo wheel
Created:      Thu Jun 29 17:28:01 UTC 2023  o

Here are some of the posts on bboard:

General/1

TACKER:  wheel ()
SUBJECT: .. ARPA membership on SDFeu vs SDF
DATE:    26-Jul-23 21:47:24
HOST:    odin

smj, died.
I'm trying to pull his work back together, fixing the system..
I'll show you how to get access after the wigger sovidog pirate are asleep.
[o;-)
~, 
 wheel@sdfeu.org

General/2

TACKER:  wheel ()
SUBJECT: New Religion, in basic.
DATE:    26-Jul-23 23:41:49
HOST:    odin

new 
cls 
10 smile at god through the top of your head like a good little 
mushroom, instead of talking. 
20 consider working for such, since existant 
or not, has a bigger wallet than you, and false hope is still broke and in 
the hole. 
30 goto 10 
run 
rerun

General/6

TACKER:  wheel ()
SUBJECT: QUARUM VOTE
DATE:    26-Jul-23 22:00:09
HOST:    odin

Quarum Topic: After smj, founder of sdf, a computer people related 
community, with free public unix/linux (netbsd currently), as the first 
black man to produce such, proving such, died, crappy soviet wiggers tried 
to steal his work, priviteising to their collection of public access 
servers, disabled, used for illegal phishing purpose. http://is.gd/sdf_smj 
Since all members of sdf could have easily sided with me instead of stupid 
soviet pirates getting deported, ..I might redo sdf completely, seeing as 
how, none of you were and still aren't on his side, and all have TOS 
violations on record, setting all of your *:* to *:new and you're 
directories 000 ... not sure just what else yet,.. ..but as for the really 
ugly soviets working against smj's work, and every work, as wigger pirate 
tend to,... Vote.. (actually I don't really believe you have much of a say, 
but lets see how you feel?



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TACKER:  wheel ()
SUBJECT: smj
DATE:    26-Jul-23 17:44:25
HOST:    odin

Steven M. Jones June 25, 1962 - Sep 8, 2014 https://is.gd/sdf_smj

I'm needing one of you to change my shell from psh to bash.
..if this doesn't happen very soon, all of you get TOS violations reviewed, 
etc...

smj died oweing me money and services, soviets deleted my account and tried 
to steal sdf. [o;-)

~, 
Hunter Reon Barnes
wheel@sdfeu.org

There’s more, since the user is new, it is highly likely that it is a joke, but I want to be cautious and throw out a warning in case it is not.

  • @constantokra
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    11 year ago

    It is weird isn’t it? Given the rest of the system behavior I would have expected the com command to redirect to the BBS or throw an error or something if I didn’t have access. At the very least I wouldn’t expect two similar errors with slightly different spelling for two different commands.

    I’d been hoping when I was made an ARPA member and could change my shell it’d just fix it, but that hasn’t happened yet. I generally enjoy troubleshooting things, but obviously with an unvalidated shell my options for that are basically nonexistent. I guess I probably should compare with a fresh account.

    Thanks for the advice!