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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[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Imagine getting a new monitor for your PC that quietly changed what you were able to see when you used it. If you wanted to read an article about a topic the manufacturer didn't like, the article would be completely reworded to fit their preferred narrative.

Someone eventually realized this was happening and called out the manufacturer publicly (which allegedly led to death threats and such) who proceeded to crash out over it, initially claiming this was to reform the broader internet, but eventually quietly pushing a patch that made your monitor install malware on your PC.

[–] nullify3112@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Thank you for actually answering this like I am 5!

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine getting a new monitor for your PC that quietly changed what you were able to see when you used it.

LG's working on it.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Halfway through the common I forgot whether we were talking about Lemmy or LG lmao

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah they probably inspired my metaphor.