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Site integrity incident, 2026-11-13

I like to Thank the staff and the person or people that defended and fixed the attack.

Thank you QQ

And people are right, ai is mainstream. Anyone with internet access can have an ai assistant now. Ai as a whole is stupid-smart. What that means is that it's like a smart lazy sleep deprived teenager. It will find the simplest, most fastest, and will want to do less work to do a task; unless told otherwise.
 
Thanks for saving my mind ❤️

Now there'll be at least some reading available until the war / AI apocalypse / unspecified global event.
 
Funny enough when I was telling my mother about this earlier while my family were going out to eat she brought up this might be part of the recent surge in cyberterroristic hacking like the Microsoft one and a few others she's keyed into including one only people in her job is aware of from it being one of those hush-hush things that the News ain't gonna be allowed to report. Random unrelated targets that serve solely to inconvenience or obstruct people.
 
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Mr.siri said:
Why are hacker attackers targeting fanfic sites of all thing?
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Discussing this in detail would get into Rule 8 material, but the last time AO3 was attacked -- by a DDoS botnet -- it turned out to be by a government-sponsored hacking group that was apparently pretending to be Sudanese Islamists in an attempt (one of many) to earn legitimacy points in terrorist circles by attacking American degenerates so they could promote a specific political agenda.

As they apparently put it (the translation isn't mine), they attacked AO3 because "... we are against all forms of degeneracy, and the site is full of disgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ and NSFW things."

The extent to which this was their actual motive, given the political layers to things -- which are, again, Rule 8 and not to be discussed here -- is, of course, open to interpretation.

As a practical matter, I should note that fanfic sites and the like are generally a convenient target for this sort of thing, as they're generally run on a low budget and not protected in the same way that, say, a bank or credit card website would be. This means that it's a lot cheaper in terms of resources to knock down AO3 or QQ for a bit than it is to, say, take down MS365.
 
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This is what frustrates me the most about all of this tbh.

There were probably always people out there with the hacking skills necessary to hack a website like QQ, but why would they bother? They had more important things to be doing.

These AI agents though are putting that same power in the hands of just about any joe-shmoe. I fear that it'll kill the internet at this rate.
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That's why we should train a LLM to be Cortana. So we can have a hottie on watch 24/24 heh.

Thanks for patching the vulnerability that fast, not like AO3 lmao.
 
Top Sun said:
That's why we should train a LLM to be Cortana. So we can have a hottie on watch 24/24 heh.

Thanks for patching the vulnerability that fast, not like AO3 lmao.
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AO3 is a very different beast from QQ but thus far the staff here has repeatedly shown to be more capable than the idiots running the OTW.
If the disaster area they call a database got fucked by whatever happened then AO3 probably have to restore it from backups.

And no one needs an LLM, just a few vulnerability scanners run via cron and a self hosted WAF.
 
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Top Sun said:
I was jesting don't worry, I'm absolutely not an expert at running a website lmao.
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I am technically an expert on running one in the cloud. Read let autoscaling and the cloud WAF and DDoS protection fix shit for me and make sure whatever we deploy gets put through a security scan even before it is built.

Personally I have never used a self-hosted WAF or had to scan crap like PHP for vulnerabilities. I don't even know how PHP handles stuff like vulnerabilities, dependencies and ORM these days.
 
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Bridallist7645 said:
Now that you mentioned it yeah that's suspicious as hell but lets say that its a coordinated attack. however that brings up the question of why bring down fanfiction sites of all things
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AO3 is down for over a half a month now, in no small part because they think that modern tooling like virtualization and idempotent configuration management be baaaaddd.
That and their database is convoluted crap because ruby on rails's orm is shit but moreso because of all the garbage they put into the DB, like all the idiotic tags.
What moron searches for fics on the bases of #no beta we die like men or #i wrote this in 3 in the morning instead of sleeping. Those are frigging low grade, completely useless author's notes.
It is a huge, legacy app that is begging for overhaul as much as their db schema does. Maintaining that disgusting monstrosity and restoring and auditing it is a clusterfuck, but it was always clusterfuck waiting to happen. #selfinflictedproblems #you have millions so frigging hire a pro to fix your burning trashcan of a DB and legacy application. #ContainersandVMsBegood #Ansibleisbetterthanmanualzomg!!!!.
 
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Karmic Acumen said:
They don't care if you read, they care if you goon.
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Do they realize that most of the internet IS PORN ALREADY?
And it is not like I go to aff.net(now aff.org but I don't follow that drama) that often but it seems to be up. And has been so for the past month.
Most of the internet, including most p2p file sharing that would be impossible to take down?

Talk about stupid and pathetic.

Stinks like either script kiddies that got in a few easy kills because of AI and in AO3's case - incompetence.
Or a false flag done by interested parties or just a pure and simple attempt at personal data theft for financial reasons, potentially disgused as muh slaktivzm.
 
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kinglugia said:
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WHO. DARES.

I CURSE THEM. I HEX THEM. I INFLICT A POX UPON THEM. AND THEIR ILK.
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Did somebody say cursing!

Cause I have a few vintage ones.

May weeds overgrow their houses and and owls sing on their roofs!

May the black plague strike them in the hearts!

May fire burn them from the inside out!

May the black earth open up and swallow them alive!

May they lie in the earth for nine years and still not rot!

May they rot alive and worms eat them!

May their female relatives have their breast milk dry up!

May their seed be wiped out!

May this happen all the way to the 9th leg of their extended families.

This is how you curse like a balkaner, boys and girls.
 
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