Botnet Controls “Twitch Installs Arch Linux”
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Botnet Controls “Twitch Installs Arch Linux”
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#2Evidence? https://imgur.com/WLEt2iz
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#3I 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. It certainly seemed fishy.
It's kind of upsetting. It was very exciting in the beginning--the internet installing a bootable arch linux system by voting for a single character at a time in under 3 hours...seemed unimaginable. But after the dhcpcd stuff started, it felt like that victory was taken from us.
EDIT: it WAS a botnet, see the reply from pdaddyo
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#4Evidence? https://imgur.com/WLEt2iz
I saw this on 4chan. I wonder what he would have done.
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#5Evidence? https://imgur.com/WLEt2iz
I doubt that. The thread had only <10 replies and it has been dead.
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#6Latest news from irc:
JRWR: So, the creators of this project have left. they no longer want to be a part of this any more. they have their reasons and I will NOT be disclosing it. The creators have handed over the keys to JRWR and yamamushi
JRWR: This project WILL live on, give us 24/48 hours to make something nice, we have their code and will expand on it.
yamimushi: We are working to get everything back online asap
And yes the reasoning for shutdown was the botnet, not pings or Google complaints.
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#7I 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
Re: Botnet Controls “Twitch Installs Arch Linux”
#8I 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…
I thought nmap was just chat going along with random stuff, but now that you mention it could be a botnet.
I doubt the `ping 8.8.8.8` was botnet though as its standard to test out your internet to see if you enabled it or not. Chat was trying to pacman -S something. People were encouraging others to type "ping 8.8.8.8"
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#9So, is there any way to stop this botnet? Seems to be that the only way to stop bots from abusing the twich IRC api is to ban each of them.
I have programmed twitch spam bots before (repeats what people say, once on each account with eight accounts), it's surprisingly easy to do. Twitch does have some sort of system to detect if you are abusing the API I think, because I noticed that I get timed out pretty quickly.
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#10I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system.