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.

  • Chog
    4•1 year ago

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

    • Awwab
      6•1 year ago

      Twitter might know but we don’t and that’s what the article is saying.

    • AshLassay
      2•1 year ago

      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.