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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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[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 84 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 14 points 2 days ago
[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] vogi@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Somebody has to jot it down for the "Rise and rise and rise of the fediverse"-Video in 20 years.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Agreed. I usually don’t care about online drama at all, but at least this has been… amusing.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 24 points 3 days ago

You deserve more credit. Thanks for bringing it to everyone’s attention!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

The beans have certainly flowed, sheesh.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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 🤷

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 12 points 3 days ago

Gotta leave the door open for a next season sequel with a sneaky post credits scene.

[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

the same thing except less well hidden.

[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Genuinely feel like we’re seeing a mental health crisis or breakdown by the dev…

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 5 points 2 days ago

Nothing is better than beans, how dare you say that. The beans can hear you.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

I dunno, this opens the author up to a lot of consequences other people might choose to pursue.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ironic Twist:

  • It's a Journey Of The Hero story and this part was just the initial fall of the Hero.
[–] massacre@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Me too.

It would surely be ironic, though.