FYI admins
cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/fediverse/p/1066667/tesseract-dev-injects-malicious-code-into-browser-to-illegally-ddos-the-dbzer0-instance
As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.
Gotta say, I’ve enjoyed this whole drama. This seems like the end of the story arc. It’s been fun guys. Better than beans.
Yeah, also this makes me really happy that we’re on the fediverse. Turns out some part of the system is run by a strange control freak? Swiftly replace the part and everyone moves along.
Well said.
only works for the ones lucky enough to catch it – a tiny minority is likely considering that piefed was caught doing something similar and it’s still on track to be one of the largest instances on the fediverse nonetheless.
Agreed. I usually don’t care about online drama at all, but at least this has been… amusing.
The memes have been fresh!
You deserve more credit. Thanks for bringing it to everyone’s attention!
The beans have certainly flowed, sheesh.
I hope it’s the end but like the piefed stuff we think it’s done then something else comes up.
Plus the dev/user/admin of dubvee has said a few times they’re leaving only to be back soon after saying that. Hell there were two or three announcements tesseract work was stopped 🤷
Gotta leave the door open for a next season sequel with a sneaky post credits scene.
What is the piefed stuff?
Piefed dev doing something similar on the flagship instance, and has some odd philosophies on what should be filtered out in the code.
When people started pointing it out and asking questions called it harassment and tried to get instances to instance ban them all.
Best part was insulting everyone looking at the code if you didn’t ask on their specific comm.
the same thing except less well hidden.
Genuinely feel like we’re seeing a mental health crisis or breakdown by the dev…
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I dunno, this opens the author up to a lot of consequences other people might choose to pursue.
Somebody has to jot it down for the “Rise and rise and rise of the fediverse”-Video in 20 years.
Ironic Twist:
“doubt”
Me too.
It would surely be ironic, though.
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