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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[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Considering the guy had a list of what looked like 1k+ users being blocked, which honestly confuses me how he managed to get that many users together. I don't even remember most of the users comments after each post, let alone the massive list he had. His ego must be massive to create a curated list like that, which means he took issue with each one of us on that list or built a script that created it based from trigger words from our posts and comments... either way it's not a good look.

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It was a very sloppy list. I searched for a few regex terms and there definitely some who only matched two nicks and were way to general for that. For example blocking every nick starting with urheber, which is German and means originator, to just match two accounts who are exactly named like that. It could also be that he put some nicks in the regex just make the block less obvious

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure he also had "kate" in a regex too, which is a reasonably common woman's name in English.

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Just Kate, yes: "^Kate$",

Those are dumb, but there are also a lot of regex without the $ (so any can follow) and a few without the ^ (so it can be anywhere in the name).

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