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.

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 120 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

Way to prove you were an asshole literally the entire time.

At first the douchebag tried to play it off like they were doing a good thing by trying to make the fediverse easier to navigate for newcomers.

…by DDOSing an instance? Sure, Jan. What a little coward.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 94 points 2 months ago (79 children)

    Surely that is actually illegal in some places.

  • source
  • hideshow 79 child comments
  • [–] 40 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    unless you live on the moon, which legally cannot be "owned" by any country and therefore isn't under the jurisdiction of any country, then this is, in fact, illegal in every place.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
  • load more comments (74 replies)
    [–] 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    In response to this startrek.website defederated from dbo. Also 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.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    It's funny that he didn't DDoS the Nazi instances he sprinkled in his blocklist.

    Always the critics of fascism that get the short end of dark triads. ╮(︶▽︶)╭

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I think he might be focused on dbzer0 in particular because they're the ones who first exposed his secret censorship.

    Probably not a political choice, but a personal grudge. If a nazi instance had been the first one to expose him, he probably would have targeted them.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 22 points 2 months ago

    Do we have fediverse historians writing this stuff down? I feel like we need a knowyourmeme for fediverse drama.

  • source
  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    How does dbzer0 end up in every controversy on lemmy ever?

    Half the time they arent even the controversial ones in the situation

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I am OOTL. Can someone give me a quick version of what's going on here? I saw that tesseract on db0 no longer worked and figured it was because they stopped developing it.

    But it sounds like they continued and is now attacking db0?

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Remember kids,

    When everyone else is the asshole, it might be time to consider the common denominator

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    load more comments
    view more: next ›