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Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by unixhero »

mcv wrote: post #94
smcl wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came here to say the same thing. Unless you're one of today's "lucky 10,000"[0] who haven't ever encountered goatse before, there's no need to verify this :D [0] - https://xkcd.com/1053/ edit: folks the xkcd lucky 10k reference was a joke, settle down

I've managed to never see goatse so far. Not because I'm new or innocent, but because I've learned my lessons. I don't think the 10,000 really applies to this situation. It's certainly not something that everybody needs to see at some point in their lives (or so I've been lead to believe).

I didn't want to see it

But it was kind of a rickroll situation... yeah it sucks

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by jbarrs »

generalizations wrote: post #84
Quarrelsome wrote: post #24

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doesn't this mean I could embed salacious material into a link and fool people into thinking the person who owned this website wrote it?

> Anything can be generated here. You could even host your own blog that uses my website as a renderer if you really wanted to. It supports markdown. > Every post that I want to publicly claim authorship of lives at the root of this site. If you are reading a post that I have claimed it will look like this page. Posts of unknown authorship have a disclaimer at the top of the page. https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAA…

>Posts of unknown authorship have a disclaimer at the top of the page.

Problem is, the posts can contain elements. So it's easy to just write a little JavaScript that removes the disclaimer at the top. See this hastily-made, immature example of mine:

https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIABO8LmUC/3VT0W7aQBB85yu2QV...

As it stands, this really isn't the most secure system. Something much more malicious could be injected into this!

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by VHRanger »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #61

Once, out of the kindness of my foolish heart, I ran a server with a lot of great sound effects for all and sundry to download. Eventually the bandwidth was getting hammered by a huge number of leechers seemingly from some apps that had simply hard-linked to the resources. After replacing said resources [0] they soon ceased but not without a slew of abusive and entitled emails demanding I restore the SFX. Oh fun time…

You're selflessly trying to get people to appreciate new music styles and get in touch with their anger and they respond with contempt.

What an entitled bunch

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by LanceH »

hk__2 wrote: post #75
technics256 wrote: post #8

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I saw it the first time as a kid. My friends and I tried to trick each other to see it too. I'm fine. We're fine.

You feel fine, but you don’t know what effect it can have on others. This is a selection bias. By definition, all the survivors of the most atrocious things can say "I went through XYZ and I’m still alive". That doesn’t make this XYZ something you would recommend to anyone.

Selection bias of one data point versus no data at all.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by saberience »

HeckFeck wrote: post #50

Ah, I had a similar idea. There were too many bots or vulnerability scanners hitting /wp-admin.php on my blog. It was flooding my access logs with 404s because I don't rock wordpress. Irksome stuff. So I threw up a little 'surprise' for the ahem penetration testers ahem , if you feel brave: https://www.thran.uk/wp-login.php

omg! That scared the shit out of me!

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by schaefer »

> The mature and responsible thing to do would have been...

You were triggered, and so you lashed out with an attack aimed at bystanders.

"mature and responsible" have nothing to do with it. The word is: immoral.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by hk__2 »

darknavi wrote: post #120
gonehome wrote: post #101

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+1 - this is a childish move and bad business imo. I'd guess the author is pretty young.

It can't be bad "business" because they aren't making the game for money. Definitely childish though.

> It can't be bad "business" because they aren't making the game for money.

It’s bad for their image and so for any business they may work on now or in the future.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by HeckFeck »

dym_sh wrote: post #115
HeckFeck wrote: post #50

Ah, I had a similar idea. There were too many bots or vulnerability scanners hitting /wp-admin.php on my blog. It was flooding my access logs with 404s because I don't rock wordpress. Irksome stuff. So I threw up a little 'surprise' for the ahem penetration testers ahem , if you feel brave: https://www.thran.uk/wp-login.php

does it respond with 42.zip upon submitting admin-admin?

I'm working on maximising flow control of the payload.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Post by VHRanger »

darknavi wrote: post #120
gonehome wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 - this is a childish move and bad business imo. I'd guess the author is pretty young.

It can't be bad "business" because they aren't making the game for money. Definitely childish though.

I don't think it's childish.

It's very crude, but satire often is and is one effective way of driving change in society around us.

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