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.
dubvee.org is down
what does dubvee.org have to do w it?
That’s where the ddos originated
Gotta say, I’ve enjoyed this whole drama. This seems like the end of the story arc. It’s been fun guys. Better than beans.
Yeah, also this makes me really happy that we’re on the fediverse. Turns out some part of the system is run by a strange control freak? Swiftly replace the part and everyone moves along.
Well said.
only works for the ones lucky enough to catch it – a tiny minority is likely considering that piefed was caught doing something similar and it’s still on track to be one of the largest instances on the fediverse nonetheless.
Agreed. I usually don’t care about online drama at all, but at least this has been… amusing.
The memes have been fresh!
You deserve more credit. Thanks for bringing it to everyone’s attention!
The beans have certainly flowed, sheesh.
I hope it’s the end but like the piefed stuff we think it’s done then something else comes up.
Plus the dev/user/admin of dubvee has said a few times they’re leaving only to be back soon after saying that. Hell there were two or three announcements tesseract work was stopped 🤷
Gotta leave the door open for a next season sequel with a sneaky post credits scene.
What is the piefed stuff?
Piefed dev doing something similar on the flagship instance, and has some odd philosophies on what should be filtered out in the code.
When people started pointing it out and asking questions called it harassment and tried to get instances to instance ban them all.
Best part was insulting everyone looking at the code if you didn’t ask on their specific comm.
the same thing except less well hidden.
Genuinely feel like we’re seeing a mental health crisis or breakdown by the dev…
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I dunno, this opens the author up to a lot of consequences other people might choose to pursue.
Ironic Twist:
- It’s a Journey Of The Hero story and this part was just the initial fall of the Hero.
Somebody has to jot it down for the “Rise and rise and rise of the fediverse”-Video in 20 years.
What a loser. Tiny whiny loser.
Fabulous reaction time from db0 & team!
So who is this loser, I mean it’s a tiny whiny bit illegal what he did it seems…
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com You need to see this
Already known and mitigated.
Not to expose anything that’s best left internal, but is this something the proof of work check handles? Is it something that’s been implemented in advance? Just curious, if you can talk about it at all. I’m woefully undereducated on the actual ins and outs of the web.
For this kind of stuff you can easily ask an llm and it will give you a pretty decent rundown of mitigation tactics
Just thought it would be the cherry on top if this final outburst was automatically blocked by a mitigation measure that was already there.
I am not sure what the other preventative actions have been taken. Is it feasible to defederate from this and any other instance that is administered from this person who has virtually attacked the flotilla?
The website has been taken down so that particular vector has been removed. The related startrek.website instance defederated from db0 and other instances have defederated from st.w due to all this.
The individual had at least 2 known alt accounts, so it’s likely they have more and will pop back up like a noxious weed.
Wow lmao. This is crazy levels of petty
What the actual fuck? This idiot may have his braindead opinions and do to his OSS project whatever he wants (so sag I wasn’t on the list), but that is just such a fucked up thing to do.
It just gets worse and worse. I figured that the goodbye message he posted wouldn’t be the end of it. Thankfully it seems to be down now so it’s not causing harm anymore directly but still.
Im sure some shitlibs will still defend this
Where is @Kirk@startrek.website when you need him most?
not convinced that’s not a sock puppet, from all the stuff I’ve seen so far
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
This whole thing reminds me of the guy (Angled/LMAO) 3 years ago that was all butthurt after he got busted trying to take all the good sublemmy names, and responded by posting a bunch of disgusting stuff with alts and DOSing lemmy.world.
I wonder if you could actually track him down and prosecute him for it…
The domain seems to be registered to SquareSpace so his details are hidden from public view but there is a SquareSpace abuse email and US phone number.
I suspect in the first instance if db0 complained to them the site would be shutdown and SquareSpace would then have to comply with any legal action.
INAL but I strongly suspect that the DDOS would constitute a crime in the US where the domain is registered.
Yup. Anyone knowingly assisting would also be implicated. Afaik, the precedent was set about 20 years ago with the whole LOIC/anonymous ddos.
Actual lmao
Blegh. I made some effort to get to this instance and I’m not even on the list!
Isn’t that like seriously criminal in the usa lol?
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com is Tesseract the default UI for db0? I see voyager, photon and alexandrite listed on the front page but no mention on tesseract.
No it isn’t. It’s still there but I removed the link to it
Thanks
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