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Tesseract dev injects malicious code into browser to illegally DDOS the dbzer0 instance (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 day ago by Quokka@quokk.au to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 19 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 41 minutes ago)

The concept was fine - if it was correctly advertised and (ideally) given multiple options of block list curators like how you can subscribe to blocklists on in Bluesky. That would actually be a great feature, because he was right about one thing - onboarding normies to the Fediverse is a struggle.

Hiding it, actually actively obfuscating it, making it unconfigurable and bundling it with the safety/anti-spam filter is not okay. That is him trying to silently make himself arbiter of acceptable conversation on the Fediverse.

Then on top of that, you add some of the bans he included being deranged at best and possibly actively homophobic and transphobic at worst.