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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
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> The author is aware. Since the website is vulnerable to XSS, you could inject a script that removes the disclaimer.
s/removes the disclaimer/exploits a browser 0-day/
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…
The users of these apps probably don't even understand what it means to hotlink someone else's resources, and, rather than simply remove the resources, you replaced them with an overtly offensive message. I'm not saying you weren't within your rights to do that, but you can't at this point high-horse and complain about the abusive emails you got as a reaction.
The world we live in: people somehow feel more comfortable posting shock/traumatic images than regular consensual porn. This is one of the few parts of internet culture I hope to see the end of. We can be edgy and offensive without traumatizing each other.
Goatse is consensual porn, as far as I know. Maybe not “regular”, but that seems to be an unnecessary constraint in this context.
My point is that OP could have used porn (or something else) as an alternative to shock/trauma imagery, because their goal was to be offensive. There was no need for OP to traumatize their audience.
The world we live in: people somehow feel more comfortable posting shock/traumatic images than regular consensual porn. This is one of the few parts of internet culture I hope to see the end of. We can be edgy and offensive without traumatizing each other.
What kind of edgy and offensive image would you use?
Neither unauthorized hotlinking nor iframe embedding are “theft” or “steal”ing.
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.
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…
> simply hard-linked to the resources It's fairly surprising to see that approach from pretty large brands/companies. Some Indian ISPs are kinda notorious in that they'll just link to huge image files on third-party sites and just let their 300 million customers hammer the poor site into the ground. I guess it saves them bandwidth, but they also run a huge risk of pissing someone off and have that asset replaced by s…
I run three word games, this stuff happens for all of them. It sucks but I would never do what they did, it's abusive to the people who just googled your game and ended up on the wrong site. I've had teachers and students reach out to me to say they play my game in class every day together. And parents who play with their kids every day, and adult who text their results to each other every day. It sucks if they end u…
+1 - this is a childish move and bad business imo. I'd guess the author is pretty young.
I'd guess you're pretty old.