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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 171 points 3 months ago

I looked at some of the leaked source code and my god the code smells are so rotten its like they had a dead horse in the back for a while and its developed a stank like an Eric Andre skit.

It increasingly looks like nobody would maintain this bundle of wax besides under-experienced juniors who threw themselves at it, and apparently after moot sold it, it was never touched. It runs on an extremely old version of FreeBSD and PHP.

The fact this happened now as opposed to any time in the past decade is, I have no words.

[-] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago

I wanna bet attackers probably thought it would be maintained by one or several of the most no-life, chronically-online users of the web... or that they would be waiting for an attack to get revenge in their typical unhinged way... and it turned out no one was maintaining or watching it at all XD

[-] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 months ago

security theater is a quite effective deterrent at times.

Not even 4chaners thought it was worth protecting

[-] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 46 points 3 months ago

I mean, the source code looks a lot cleaner than WordPress, which is an incredibly sad statement.

Kill WordPress now.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 14 points 3 months ago

Also, the owner of Wordpress is allegedly a piece of s...

[-] jodanlime@midwest.social 30 points 3 months ago

I wish people would stop censuring themselves on lemmy like they do for the other social medias. You can say shit, and a lot worse now that you aren't asking a corpo for permission to speak.

[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Shaaaaaving cream! Be nice and clean! Shave every day and you'll always look keen!

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Aaah, someone of culture, I see.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Stilton Cheese?

Satin undies?

Shit?

[-] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

Satin undies?

Close. Soiled undies.

[-] hayes_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Ssssssandwiches

[-] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago
[-] Fenrir@lemmings.world 1 points 3 months ago

Didn't expect that

[-] gamer@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago

I looked at some of the leaked source code

Where? I'd be interested in looking through it too

[-] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 months ago
[-] massi1008@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Link unfortunately dead by now...

[-] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

I can upload a new one. Ping me tomorrow when I'm awake again.

[-] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

check some of the other chans and you will find a catbox.moe link to it.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Didn’t they get hacked pretty regularly in the past?

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