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Tesseract dev injects malicious code into browser to illegally DDOS the dbzer0 instance (quokk.au)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/div0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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FYI admins

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.

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[–] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

He kept claiming they're AP, but refused to provide proof. Not sure but as it happens, startrek.website defederated us as soon as we banned him.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Huh, 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Startrek.website is probably also run by Admiral Patrick, or maybe he's just someone with admin access there. Either way they seem like bad news, that site should definitely be avoided.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I don't think I've heard anything positive about the instance so completely unsurprised by what they did AND how they were happy to blame db0 for everything while continuing darvo.

    Only sad this comment didn't federate before the post was locked

    So this user of yours will also be banned for not following the instance values?

    https://startrek.website/u/kirk

    Specifically not following authenticity, ie saying they're a different user but could be trying to increase the moderation you may need to do, and extremely disrespectful, unless that value only counts towards members of this instance.

    This is being brought up specifically as while yes you are a small instance non of this apart from that user would bring traffic here you would need to moderate so it seems as if you are just doing this to cut off a large portion of the fediverse explicitly against principles those in star trek would be for.

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