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.

  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I’m pretty sure he also had “kate” in a regex too, which is a reasonably common woman’s name in English.

    • Baŝto@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 days ago

      Just Kate, yes: "^Kate$",

      Those are dumb, but there are also a lot of regex without the $ (so any can follow) and a few without the ^ (so it can be anywhere in the name).