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Botnet Controls “Twitch Installs Arch Linux”

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Re: Botnet Controls “Twitch Installs Arch Linux”

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Post by blerud » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 1:42 AM UTC

pdaddyo wrote: post #7

noobermin wrote: post #3

I was in the stream and while at least some of the feats accomplished (partitioning the disk, installing the right things, changing the password) seemed to have some authenticity to it, the chat started to try to install nmap, then it tried investigate networking capabilities, tried to ping 8.8.8.8, to start dhcpcd, then tried to ping 8.8.8.8 again...all in rapid succession before anyone really discussed it at all. I…

Creator JRWR confirmed botnet in irc channel: https://i.imgur.com/qaWFUEH.jpg

What irc client is that? Could you share the config?

Re: Botnet Controls “Twitch Installs Arch Linux”

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Post by kbar13 » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 7:12 PM UTC

n17r4m wrote: post #17

anoa wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few ideas were thrown around with a third-party server and captcha necessary to validate your twitch account to send commands. People working on it say it's being handled, but it definitely isn't a bad idea to brainstorm.

What about setting up a second site with a form: enter twitch name and answer a turing test question. also ask for person to create a new turing question with answer. Person has ability to request a few new questions before deny. Submitted questions are approved by admins via rapid fire Y/N buttons, with ability to fix typos, etc. This authenticates that user for something like 5-15 minutes or however long to partici…

this kind of defeats the purpose of twitch chat

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