i support this strategy, I once did this but used meatspin.com
Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
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Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
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This is absolutely amazing. More people should do this.
These attempts are almost entirely automated, so almost nobody will see it. But if you want to help, tarpitting any IP which requests that page will slow down the scanner with minimum resource usage on your side.
yeah, a quick failtoban rule is (as a server operator) every bit as satisfying.
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This site allows anyone to inject content, you don't need an iframe. https://joshcsimmons.com/post/eJyVlD2PgzAMhvf8Cm8HlcD76dSlf8... Created using wget "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/snipe/5512408/raw/db9f4051eeb1079de436ec5ae9ba9aff2a99549c/gistfile1.txt" python3 >>> base64.b64encode(zlib.compress(b" " + open('gistfile1.txt', 'rb').read())).replace(b'/',b'%2F')
On my phone right now, but how did you figure this out?
It's explained on this page about how his blogging system works - https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F3xV227cRgx911cQ...
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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.
*survivor bias
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#445Earlier 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?
My bad; it’s a survivor bias, not a selection bias.
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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.
If seeing a mans butthole causes you serious psychological trauma, you probably have bigger problems to worry about than seeing a mans butthole. Everyone has a butthole. Do kids never look in the mirror? Do kids never explore bodies? We spent 100k years or more looking at each other in the nude and somehow our species didn't all go insane. Nakedness probably doesn't hurt anyone.
That’s not simple nakedness, otherwise the HN discussion on this entry would have been much less heated.
Re: Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
#447I 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…
I've had the same with my word game. People will report a bug and then I find out they are on some ad-ridden copycat. For my app it's reached multiple levels. One of the app thieves has embeded another app thief. https://imgur.com/a/0qW0y1r The most frustrating thing for me is fucking Google. Their search results are so bad these days I can't get my game to the top even though thousands play it every day and link to…
Yeah, my experience is also that they're mostly proxies and iframes are a minority. Some serve a cached version of the site (since like most of these, my sites are static - they do update to get the updated answer lists though, since I manually set the puzzles a bit in advance.)
Some of the sites that host their own cached copy even go out of the way to remove the credits and contact info from the page.
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#448Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could've made it a picture of a middle finger or whatever. Same message, but not at the risk of breaking obscenity law. That's not to say that Goatse wasn't the correct option in this case.
I'd say that regardless of what you do (aside from just blocking framing) you are likely to fall afoul of some UK law. Fun fact: UK law exists only to make sure that every person in the UK is guilty of something by the time they reach adulthood. It serves no other purpose.
The US have copied that shamelessly.
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Just so anyone searching this thread is aware, "Content-Security-Policy:... frame-ancestors 'none';" is what you are (I think) referring to. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...
Oh, TIL X-Frame-Options has been superseeded. That was the header I was thinking about.
Yeah I set them both just in case people have an ancient user agent but I think that's not required any more.
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Why would the US extradite
The lack of extradition doesn't prevent the British courts from operating. It's not like you can escape punishment by just avoiding physically going to court. If you refuse to show up, you'll probably lose by default. How much impact that has depends on the relationship between the websites owners and the UK, but extradition isn't strictly necessary.
On the contrary the expectation of committing very substantial and expensive resources with no expectations of any end result does in fact stop the criminal process from operating in the same way that the expectation of refusal stops me from booking a flight to New York and asking Scarlett Johansson for a date. This is probably why people have been grossing each other out since the internet existed but no American has been so prosecuted for mere offense.
If you want a good preview of what trying to enforce UK law on US citizens looks like look no further than the New York Libel Terrorism Protection Act later passed federally as the "Speech Act" preventing US courts from enforcing British Libel judgements referring to you lot colloquially as "Libel Terrorists"
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/03/21/394273902/...
Insofar as action purely in the UK well Europe is 10M sq miles the US 3.8M whereas the UK is a 94,000 sq mile island on the way to nothing else.
If they want to commit at minimum thousands of dollars in resources they can at great expense reduce by 1 the potential tourists spending money on their island I suppose.