As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.

  • HCSOThrowawayEnglish
    38·
    2 days ago

    Imagine getting a new monitor for your PC that quietly changed what you were able to see when you used it. If you wanted to read an article about a topic the manufacturer didn’t like, the article would be completely reworded to fit their preferred narrative.

    Someone eventually realized this was happening and called out the manufacturer publicly (which allegedly led to death threats and such) who proceeded to crash out over it, initially claiming this was to reform the broader internet, but eventually quietly pushing a patch that made your monitor install malware on your PC.

    • nullify3112English
      1·
      7 hours ago

      Thank you for actually answering this like I am 5!

    • Ensign_CrabEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      Imagine getting a new monitor for your PC that quietly changed what you were able to see when you used it.

      LG’s working on it.

      • Encrypt-KeeperEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        Halfway through the common I forgot whether we were talking about Lemmy or LG lmao