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Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

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Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#161

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

This is fabulous and I intend to steal your idea.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#163
post #82

Never thought is say it but uhm... the world needs more goatse apparently OP you should follow this up by reporting all the said websites to google.

Google won’t fix this, they actively profit from the theft sites because Google is the one selling the ads on those pages. Break them up.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#165

I don't know why I checked but uhh yup. It's working. There are at least 6 sites on the first page of Google results that now render goatse. Thankfully, the first link is the original one for me.

At least 12 different domains from the top Kagi results. My poor eyes...

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#166

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…

In the days of P2P file sharing I used to share files with file names and metadata indicating they were rare Metallica live recordings of Metallica songs and other metal band's songs.... but instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwK_WOXjfc0

So many downloads.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#168
post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Author is not the distributor of the image.

I want to see this argument play out in court. He's the one specifically replacing one thing with another under some circumstance. Not the person embedding it or the one hosting the image.

If a man is using a telescope to look into my house to watch the football game, he does not get to be upset when I change the TV to weird inflation porn.

Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft

#170
I formerly worked for a small RealEstate aggregation/publication software company with large market adoption, and a well-known competitor started deep linking to the images within our custom-written resizing image cache server, and continued to do so after several polite requests to stop. Image traffic is the bulk of network traffic for RealEstate data, and their stollen traffic was very significant, cutting into our own available bandwidth and costs.

We slyly added referrer-based logic which would, with 1/20 probability, serve the Goatse.cx image instead.

Needless to say, within 48hrs we never received another deep link request from that competitor.

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