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Tesseract dev injects malicious code into browser to illegally DDOS the dbzer0 instance (quokk.au)
submitted 11 hours ago by to c/div0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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.

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[–] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

not convinced that's not a sock puppet, from all the stuff I've seen so far

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  • [–] 11 points 4 hours ago* (1 child)

    He kept claiming they're AP, but refused to provide proof. Not sure but as it happens, startrek.website defederated us as soon as we banned him.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 hours ago

    Huh, weird how the framing of the defedederation lines up so well to what ap and Kirk would say.

    https://startrek.website/post/42709922

    If you’re not familiar with how Lemmy/the Fediverse works, basically everything you read at StarTrek.website is hosted by us, even if the content originated elsewhere. That means we are responsible for everything here and we have to decide if we are comfortable boosting content from other instances.

    If you’re curious, the final straw here was learning that db0 explicitly allows hosting discussions about hurting people, which needless to say goes against our instance values and we simply don’t have the manpower to moderate that volume of content incoming from their server to a degree that we feel meets our quality standards, which left defederating as the only viable option.

    In keeping in line with past trends we’re announcing this because is is a larger instance and don’t want to leave any of the crew confused as to why something may be missing.

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