What if some elementary school used sqword inside an iframe? :(
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Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
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Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
The author said he’s not mature. His approach is much awesomer than the nature thing.
His approach is "funny" if you want, but it doesn’t help real users finding the real domain.
On the other hand, they probably will get an influx of HN users now. If they had used a tamer approach, I doubt this post would have the amount of points it has now.
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't answer to the law, which besides will vary - and I reject the implication that a puerile prank is immoral. But that aside, taking it on as if there was any moral dimension, moral clarity is straightforward here: The parasite has to answer for the material it shows its visitors. If a butcher delivers outdated meat to nowhere, knowing his van will be hijacked, how can he possibly be blamed when the hijackers se…
But he can. He is clearly attempting to poison someone.
Yeah, it is for similar reasons that you (legally) shouldn't set booby traps against burglars.
Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
#334Why not just "out" them and provide a link to the original domain? "To play Sqword, please visit directly. You are currently visiting a site that has put ads around the original game without the game creator's consent." By replacing it with goatse, a number of people will think, "I wanted to play Sqword but now it's pornographic" and never play again.
Not only this, but I imagine some of the less tech savvy end users (kids, grandparents) would be the ones who found the game from one of these parasitic sites inundated with ads. The goatse image doesn’t help those users. They probably won’t realize what that’s about and then just stop playing altogether.
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#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 i…
Shouldn’t it be “shat”?
Either way, considering the submission we’re commenting on, the author of the blog may appreciate your humour.
Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
#336Earlier 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).
Welp perhaps you'd enjoy an album of other people seeing goatse for the first time:
Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
#337Once, 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.
Hopefully you've since grown up a bit and discovered some hobbies that don't involve being a dick to annoy strangers?
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#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
So stealing the app is OK but doing something about it is illegal? Sounds like the law all right.
Yeah, it turns out you don't have carte blanche to enact any form of vigilante justice you desire.
Hopefully they don't live in the UK, so that yes they would have carte blanche here. If there's one thing the UK knows how to do, it's to make me feel better about living in Canada.
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#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What's the selection bias here? Is the claim that there's some huge population so emotionally scarred from seeing a shock image that they permanently left the internet? Or died?
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Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
#340Once, 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.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwK_WOXjfc0
I'm downright shocked that this wasn't Rick Astley.