pyjamas pyjs.org domain has been hijacked

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

... i'm reeally really sorry about this, but it suddenly dawned on me
that, under UK law, a breach of the UK's data protection act has
occurred, and that the people responsible for setting up the hijacked
services have committed a criminal offense under UK law.

ordinarily, a free software mailing list would be transferred to
alternative services through the process of soliciting the users to
enter into an implicit contract over a legally-enforceable reasonable
amount of time, as follows: "in 30 days we will move the mailing list.
 anyone who doesn't want their personal data moved to the new server
please say so".

unfortunately, in this case, i have to advise that no such
announcement had been made.  although i gave permission to one of the
people who has hijacked the domain my permission to aid and assist in
the administration of the server, i did NOT give them permission to do
anything else.  unfortunately, they then abused the trust placed in
them in order to gain unauthorised access to the machine.  in this
way, the data (ssh keys and user's email addresses) was copied WITHOUT
my express permission (constituting unauthorised computer access and
misuse of a computer), but worse than that WITHOUT the permission of
the users who "own" their data (ssh keys and email addresses).

as it's 2am here in the UK and also i will be travelling for the next
couple of days, and also to preserve the state of the machine as
evidence, i have had to shut down the XEN instance and will not be in
a convenient position to access the email addresses in order to
directly notify the users of the UK Data Protection Act breach.  so
for now, this announcement (to the python list, of all places) will
have to do.

for which i apologise, again, for having to inconvenience others who
may not be interested in what has transpired.

but to all concerned i apologise again, deeply, for putting everyone
to trouble just because i decided to stick to free software
principles.  strange as that sounds.  i honestly didn't see this
coming.

l.