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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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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago (2 children)

People like him have multiple accounts.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 19 points 4 days ago

As in not just honest ones for robustness against outages, but, sock puppets?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

here's a running list.

  • @ptz@dubvee.org
  • @admiralpatrick@lemmy.world
  • @Kirk@startrek.website
  • @OpenStars@discuss.online
[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago

I can attest that this list is running VERY far indeed. Ahead of itself even, one might say, perchance.

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Another sus account is @Teacrumble@lemmy.world. Dormant account that suddenly woke up to defend Patrick right after the drama happened.