An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.

An “amateur hour” Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk’s “temporary emergency measures” to stop web scraping.

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    22·
    1 年前

    This is just too funny:

    It’s currently unclear when this bug went into production, or how much it’s actually impacting their traffic, so it’s hard to determine whether this bug inadvertently inspired Twitter to block unregistered access and add rate limits, or if the bug was triggered by the rollout of those changes.

    • Chog@kbin.social
      5·
      1 年前

      Do they not have version control? How can they not realise when the code snippet got added to the source code!?

      • AshLassay@kbin.social
        2·
        1 年前

        Could be a poison pill by a disgruntled ex employee. So maybe they’ve obfuscated the addition of the code snippet across several commits hidden inside legitimate commits.