Founder of Exherbo Linux Funding Pedophilia Safe Space on the IRC Network - "FreeCandy" ( pizzagate )

submitted by norfidforme

Apparently he started the distro to give himself a way to continue hoarding images and videos, which he admits to collecting since age 15.

I was really really hoping this was satire but his other posts indicate not. Is there anything that can be done?

https://bryanostergaard.com/blog/2018/07/17/freenode-pedo-positive-space/

WalnutSauceGoat

A few years ago, during Obama, this post would have made him a superstar. He would be invited onto talk show, Salon would be interviewing him, “the plight of the Pedo”, poor guy, atta boy, and so on. But pedophilia has become very unpopular in the last year or so, thankfully,... and he, being a smart guy, must know that. So, there is no way he wrote that blog post. He’s been hacked. Mark my words.

norfidforme

As it turns out this is indeed real. Here's one of his sick posts on his livejournal before he used the .com

https://archive.fo/UNfF2

kaloora

Wow, just wow.... Poor babies.

evilwhitemale

Plebbit says fake, otherwise idk

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8zmn4j/why_did_this_guy_bryan_ %C3%B8stergaard_create_exherbo/?st=jjqch1yb&sh=de5a1230

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17543632

realityisinsanity

Reddit has that liberal hive mind with no sense of morality and individuality whatsoever.

user1212

This seems like a troll of some type. In another post he refers to Donald Trump and how he likes the way he deals with darkies.

Factfinder2

FREAK: https://imgoat.com/uploads/def184ad8f/124662.png

"Why I created the Exherbo linux project": https://bryanostergaard.com/blog/2018/07/16/why-i-created-the-exherbo-linux-project/

In which he rehashes all the tired old pedo rationalizations and then comes up with a new and even more delusional one:

"Movies and pictures that are on a computer are merely binary code. Ones and zeros. How can numbers be banned?"

Lock him up before he rapes a child. Oh, but he says he's "strongly opposed" to rape and "would only ever engage in consensual relations with children."

PUKE.

Are_we_sure

As mentioned below. This might be fake. A trolling of this guy. I fell for it too, but think for a second. If this is real this guy just destroyed his life. Also technically, how could Linux help him avoid prosecution?

Comments from Reddit.

Lucius_Martius • 18h I rather think someone wants to destroy this guy's life/career by either hacking his blog or (more likely) creating a fake blog under his name.

Before today there were no comments at all on this guys site. The ones that are, are probably solely from people reading this post.

4 temujin77 • 19h These days you never know anymore.

2 spacemanspiiff • 18h The blog posts seem fake. This was posted to several linux related subreddits earlier today and the mods of r/linuxmasterrace confirmed it was fake.

The guy that the OP is supposed to represent posts to livejournal.

The guy is apparently very unpopular for some reason i dont understand because of his work with freenode. He has been doxxed before.

The WHOIS for the OP is anonymous which is strange for a personal blog.

The OP is just a copy paste of old posts from livejournal until a gap and then suddenly racism and CP.

He is not listed as a contributor on Exherbo

Other thread

Earlier there were posts on all related linux subreddits where the OP urged people to report him to his employer and to the police (they conviniently had contact links ready). I think some people really want to see this guys life in shambles.

I mean it might be true but I highly doubt it since that blog post is so far out.

6 daemonpenguin • 18h Is this real? I mean in the sense that is this guy actually a developer of Exherbo Linux? If you go through the mailing list posts from that project for the past year his name doesn't seem to be there. There seem to be quite a few people working on Exherbo and Bryan doesn't appear to be one of them.

3 spacemanspiiff • 18h It is not.

norfidforme

See edit to my OP. Seems more real as time goes on.

Are_we_sure

The comments I posted above mention this has happened before. This guy appears to have some enemies in the internet netherworld. Check out this wiki entry for him

https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/L0de

L0de l0de (aka Horace Dix, Powerword: Bryan Ostergaard) is creator and host of the L0de Radio Hour, an extremely popular (if 5 listeners was popular) podcast for trolls. l0de's circle down the drain of failure came when he began to spam his podcast on numerous IRC servers.

norfidforme

Ehh...I don't know. 2014 he got doxxed but he posted a pedo post on livejournal in 2016, and many many more past then on his .com site. The doxxing was only a phone number.

Are_we_sure

I will say this. This blog post is so extraordinary that I think it should be viewed with caution. Great claims require great evidence. It seemed self-evident at first, as I didn't know who this guy was and it was long post on a personal blog. I couldn't believe what I was reading....yet I thought it was real at first....but that couldn't believe what I was reading might be the tipoff.

Given the connections I just discovered to trolls. I'm very cautious about these claims.

norfidforme

Well, contacting freenode and checking may be one good thing to do...another may be to get someone brave or stupid enough to visit #freecandy on freenode and see what's going on there would be another

Are_we__sure

just found another FreeNODE GNAA connection. GNAA is known to put up compromised web pages. I don't know freenode, but probably anyone could have started #freecandy

https://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-Bug-Used-to-Harass-an-Entire-IRC-Network-133613.shtml

A group of self-declared Internet trolls, called the GNAA, has used an old but obscure attack method to wreak havoc on the Freenode IRC network. Users were forced to execute IRC commands after visiting maliciously crafted Web pages.

The vulnerability leveraged in this attack dates back to 2001 and affects the HTML form implementation in browsers. Exploiting it allows attackers to send data to unusual services on behalf of users rendering their malformed HTML code within their browsers.

When it was first disclosed, this cross-protocol scripting bug impacted a wide variety of services, including IMAP, SMTP, NNTP or POP3. In order to address it, Mozilla implemented a port blocking policy covering many services that shouldn't normally be accessed through HTML forms.

However, GNNA members have figured out that port 6667 corresponding to the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol is not on the list and therefore, potentially vulnerable. After crafting a piece of malicious JavaScript that would cause visitors to establish a connection on Freenode, join the #freenode channel and spam it with a message, the attackers distributed it via hidden IFrames in websites and blogs.

A pseudo security advisory was posted on well-known satirical wiki, Encyclopedia Dramatica, the undisputed troll archive of the Internet. According to it, all versions of Firefox and SeaMonkey are vulnerable to this exploit, while Internet Explorer and Safari are not. Several IRC networks, in addition to Freenode, were attacked, including Efnet and OFTC (Open and Free Technology Community).

talmoridor-x

Lol, I was planning to link this blog to v/Linux today.

bosunmoon

Burn the pedophile.

norfidforme

Freenode is partially hosted in the US amongst others, so the US FBI does have jurisdisction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode

norfidforme

Also implied and said is that 5% of freenode donations go towards this.