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I don't think a person who built a shadowban malware list and slipped in a DDoS attack in his farewell message should be a mod on this community. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by Grimy@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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Just my opinion but it might not be that unpopular, who knows?

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[–] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 118 points 3 months ago

(Removed for being a popular opinion)

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 54 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Wait there was a DDOS too?

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 53 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Oh yeah, he slipped code into his site to have visitors query db0 a few hundred times. Real piece of shit behavior. And illegal.

Why them specifically? Fuck if I know.

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[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 50 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Ah, I think from what I know of the rest of the incident it would be because db0 admins found and publicized the blacklist

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 months ago*

What a ridiculous response. And objectively displays their emotional stake in keeping their filter secret, despite repeatedly saying that it was never a secret.

They’ll definitely return for “revenge” at least thrice more, and they’re absolutely sitting in a ball of stress for at least a week as a result of being found out and ostracized.

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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

I think one of theirs ratted him out

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[–] BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.world 89 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The developer posted a farewell rant on their website, and included JavaScript to send like 1k requests to an instance he had blocked in the secret ban list.

If you've ever seen a childish internet troll rant at being caught, then you're already familiar with the post.

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[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

Every internet dorkass just has to make their own snowflake manifesto lol

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[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 24 points 3 months ago

2000 requests per page load

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[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that action both illegal and traceable?

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[–] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

illegal? Yes. Traceable? No.

His code was broken and it didn't actually work to ddos anything.

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[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 21 points 3 months ago

For some reason that makes it funnier.

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[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

Yep. The dev claimed that they were being targeted by an organized campaign led by dbzero. So he put a script on the website to use the vistor's browser to attack dbzero.

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[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 46 points 3 months ago*

This was a guy to proclaimed himself normal, thought he was the arbiter of normality on the internet, wanted his place cordoned off for only who he deemed normal people. People like that on mod teams are why reddit subs were so easy for chuds to infiltrate and makeover

[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago (1 child)

You just earned a spot on the list buddy

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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 8 points 3 months ago

Sigh. Must be nice.

I'm still trying to get on that list, Admiral cucktits.

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[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 33 points 3 months ago*

I guess they forgot to remove him. If you look at his profile, it's the only community left that he moderates outside of dubvee.

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago

What a giant piece of shit that guy is.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm confused. If I agree am I supposed to downvote this?

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

yes actually. the most unpopular opinions are supposed to rise to the top and the most duh everyone thinks that are supposed to get buried.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah? Well, that’s just, like, your unpopular opinion, man.

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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah. I think that needs to be stickied/pinned comment in every thread.

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[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I thought that little bitch quit Lemmy entirely?

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[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

He says he did. But he quit last year and came back two weeks later. Plus he has a bunch of alts on other instances.

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That doesn't sound like a normal mod. That sounds like someone paid to do a job. Like a disinfo agent manipulating information.

Who tf had time for that?

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[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Exactly. Dude was running at least one instance, modding a bunch of communities, running a bunch of alt accounts, and building Tesseract with a super long and very specific blocklist.

Paid actor or independently wealthy.

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

Glad someome else sees that as a possible scenario. Since nobody else said anything, I was about to take my tin foil hat and sit in the corner alone.

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[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

I got you. I'll grab my tinfoil hat and join you.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

That's not an unpopular opinion! Oh wait- sorry. Habit.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I don't think anyone other than Hitler clones should be a mod of this community. Change my mind or shoot my neck.

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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago

The real unpopular opinion is always in the comments.

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[–] albbi@piefed.ca 4 points 3 months ago

The real unpopular opinions are always in the comments.

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[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

But they already are.

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