Time to stop using lemmy.world communities, fellas.

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  • There are a lot of ways that the attacker could persist… maybe try a different distro, just to see if it stops? What did you redownload/install when you did your wipe? Do you have any computers on the network besides yours?

    Obviously worst case for ‘persisting’ would be your hardware. Do you have a friend who can plug in or connect to your internet and see if they get the same blocked requests? Maybe try a different router/modem.


  • It sounds like he’s just a dev who’s in over his head but either doesn’t want anyone to take his baby or doesn’t want people to see his sloppy and possibly insecure code

    I’d bet it’s a LOT more along the lines of the second guess, because it’s now cost his wife her job and has gotten him quite publicly tagged along with it. He’s got a large portion of himself invested in it, and of course it will sting and suck for a bunch of folks to come along and point out, both gently and horribly, knowing OSS folks, all the shortcomings and then make changes.