a few staff revolted against Methlabs

WSFuser · Sep 17, 2005

Methlabs Projects is the comapny behind PeerGuardian. I found the following on the web site:

Dear Methlabs and P2P Community, Recently, we had several former staff members revolt against the entire P2P community as a whole. They tried to sabatoge Methlabs and attempted to wipe the Methlabs server of all its data.

Unfortunately, they gained access to site backups. In doing so, your passwords may have been compromised, although they are MD5 encrypted. We would like to you login to the Methlabs forums (http://methlabs.org/forums/) and change your password. We sincerely apologize for this issue.

As of right now, the Methlabs site is back online, although forum posts from the past month have been lost.

Since all the data was stolen by former staff members, YOU MAY RECIEVE FAKE EMAILS that look like they are from Methlabs. If they do not come from the Methlabs.org domain and from our email servers, DO NOT BELIEVE THEM.

We assure you that Methlabs development will continue, and ALL OFFICIAL PROGRAMS MUST be downloaded directly from Methlabs.org . Assume that all other sites contain spyware or malicious code which may not be directly trusted.

To update everyone on the current situation, there has been some news going around the Internet of a revolt which happened in Methlabs. This is hearsay. The current real news is that PeerGuardian development and Blocklist development is on schedule, and Blocklist should be out of Beta within the next week or so.

Please spread the word that Methlabs.org is ALIVE and DO NOT believe or TRUST any emails that do not come directly from Methlabs.org and our mail servers. These emails are from disgruntled staff members trying to hurt the P2P community as a whole.

We apoligize for the current situation. Please visit http://Methlabs.org for OFFICIAL updates, and help us spread the word!

- The Methlabs Team
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i decided to check it out since i received on of teh fake emails so I wanted to see what happened.

Tom772 · Sep 17, 2005

WSFuser said:

Methlabs Projects is the comapny behind PeerGuardian. I found the following on the web site:

i decided to check it out since i received on of teh fake emails so I wanted to see what happened.
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Hi, WSFuser, Any idea on why they went a bit crazy and did this? Some friends of mine use this program, so they were a bit annoyed and didnt know what to make of it. T

usergnome · Sep 17, 2005

so it isn't the other way around where this guy hijacked the server and kick everyone out?

ErikAlbert · Sep 17, 2005

The disgruntled staff members probably didn't get a rise.

userG · Sep 17, 2005

Methlabs.org Hijacked

“The majority of the Methlabs.org administration and development team have been forced out of their website following a series of threats and incidents. The member of the group that had been trusted to handle the finances and servers slowly managed to take over each individual part of the website's assets, eventually claiming control over the entire group and locking out the majority of staff.
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More: http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=913

UPDATE: William Erwin, now confirmed as the hijacker, has posted news on Methlabs.org, claiming the hijacking news is false and stems from a revolt by former team members.

However, after speaking to the Methlabs team and various connected members of the community, P2Pnet, SuprNova and Slyck can all confirm that the original story that the domain has been hijacked is genuine.
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Vikorr · Sep 17, 2005

Ummm...wow !

I'll bet there's an interesting story behind that.

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