<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 5:25 AM Johnny Jazeix <<a href="mailto:jazeix@gmail.com">jazeix@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div>is there a way to help with this spam except reporting it to the sysadmin channel?</div><div>
<span dir="auto"><a href="https://invent.kde.org/kpj" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://invent.kde.org/kpj</a></span> <br></div><div>
<span dir="auto"><a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380007" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380007</a></span>
<span dir="auto">and <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402838" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402838</a></span> <br></div><div>
<span dir="auto"><a href="https://community.kde.org/Special:Contributions/Kpj" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Special:Contributions/Kpj</a></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There are a number of community members who are empowered when it comes to <a href="http://bugs.kde.org">bugs.kde.org</a> and our wikis, so mentioning it in #kde-devel and #kde-sysadmin is the best way to get it dealt with when a Sysadmin is not around.</div><div>For <a href="http://invent.kde.org">invent.kde.org</a>, that is something only a Sysadmin can handle i'm afraid as Gitlab does not have roles for anti-abuse functionality (it's full admin or nothing).</div><div><br></div><div>I have now restored <a href="http://community.kde.org">community.kde.org</a> and <a href="http://techbase.kde.org">techbase.kde.org</a> from backups to reverse the vandalism to those sites, and all comments they made on <a href="http://bugs.kde.org">bugs.kde.org</a> have been blanked.</div><div>With respect to <a href="http://invent.kde.org">invent.kde.org</a>, their account(s) are now banned, and all content they created has been deleted.</div><div><br></div><div>I have also blocked all three of their accounts on the Identity end, which will hopefully put an end to the majority of their abuse. Unfortunately as Bugzilla does not participate in the Identity system, it is not protected by the same mechanisms that I listed below.</div><div>(Their third Identity account was registered with a Yandex address)</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your work.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Johnny<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Ben</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le dim. 25 juin 2023 à 13:05, Ben Cooksley <<a href="mailto:bcooksley@kde.org" target="_blank">bcooksley@kde.org</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>As some of you may have noticed, over the last couple of days we have been experiencing some spam, with Phabricator heavily affected in addition to Gitlab and our Wikis.</div><div><br></div><div>The spam wave should now have been all cleaned up, with offending content purged. My apologies to those that received the offensive material in question. </div><div><br></div><div>In response to this, I have now applied the same blocking measures that were designed to defeat our movie spammers against this recent attacker. This means that Japan has now joined the list of countries considered "abusive" and is now subject to aggressive counter measures designed to defeat spam registrations. </div><div><br></div><div>As such, people located within Japan may, depending on their specific situation, have issues registering on KDE Identity. People affected by those blocks should email <a href="mailto:sysadmin@kde.org" target="_blank">sysadmin@kde.org</a> for assistance with getting manually registered.</div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know if there are queries regarding this.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Ben</div><div><br></div></div>
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