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Tesseract dev injects malicious code into browser to illegally DDOS the dbzer0 instance (europe.pub)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Quokka@quokk.au to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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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[–] bless@lemmy.ml 72 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

lol, why a corncob?

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I believe this is a meme, an old tweet from dril, a user popular for surreal and absurdist humor.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

I think for dril the post was in turn a funny theory on what happened to people sent to the twilight zone's cornfield.

[–] bless@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know, it was like that when I stole it

https://x.com/dril/status/134787490526658561

[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's mostly wasted space.