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Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour" - Waxy.org (waxy.org)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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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.

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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Awwab@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] AshLassay@kbin.social 2 points 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.

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

maybe the elongated moskowrat coded it himself.