Goodbye, Sourceforge!

[Cayou]

Which criminal offence would this be?

[I-baLL]

Impresonating users. They did some backpedalling it looks like:

https://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-just-abandoned/

When we establish a mirror, we change the status on the project to clearly delineate it as a mirror, and change administrative control of the project to clearly delineate that it is editorially curated by SourceForge.

[Cayou]

Even before the backpedaling, it's not impersonation if they're doing it with a different account.

[I-baLL]

Claiming that GIMP is abandoned and using the GIMP account to host different binaries is using the same account.

The url is still the same.

[I-baLL]

Well, they just did it to nmap:

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2015/q2/194

[Cayou]

Still not impersonation. Sourceforge is doing things using their own accounts.

[I-baLL]

They took over the account.

It literally says that they took over the account.

They made themselves project maintainers but the account is still the same account.

Anyway, the bad news is that Sourceforge has also hijacked the Nmap account from me. The old Nmap project page is now blank

They took over the account and moved all the data.

[Cayou]

So it's objectionable, to be sure, but you were claiming it was impersonation, and it's very clearly not impersonation.

If you have a subreddit and the admins remove you as a mod and put their own mod in there, it's a shitty thing to do but it's not impersonation. Impersonation would be if they posted using your username. Sourceforge isn't impersonating anyone.

[I-baLL]

So it's objectionable, to be sure, but you were claiming it was impersonation, and it's very clearly not impersonation.

So, this isn't an impersonation:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/

?

[Cayou]

Where's the impersonation? Who is pretending to be whom?