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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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[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I view that as circle-jerky propaganda.

[–] chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What's the over under on that happening then?

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

The odds are far from great, but saying it never happens is disinformation.