Nuke the entire site fom orbit

That’s how bad things have gotten, and a lot of it is because it’s profitable to fan the flames of rancor. I don’t see it improving. I think there was a post, a couple of days ago, where some folks concluded that social media is unfixable. “Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.” ▶ this video

One must assume most user IP edge proxies are compromised hosts. If someone paid for that list they were almost certainly conned, as the black hats regularly publish that content on their forums. These folks want as many users as possible in order to hide their nuisance traffic origin in the traffic noise. Allowing users known to have an active RAT or their "proxy friends" on a commercial site is not helping anyone.... especially the victims. ▶ this video Worth studying the problem from time to time when you get bored of the antics. These folks are generally uninterested in positively contributing to any community, but rather show up to cause trouble for fun and profit. User API quotas are popular for a reason. =3

The complex formats of tiff and tga specifications makes it nearly impossible to span all the edge-cases with unit-tests. A VM can be in a known-state snapshot, process pre/post signature logged/compared with a scripted debugger, and binary input/output stripped of non-compliant metadata/blobs at each stage of the pipeline if the process behaves as expected. I've yet to find a better method than Honeypots to sustainably mitigate the complex leaky dependency mess on traditional architectures. It has been my experience that "all software is terrible, but some of it is useful". It may just be my bias, but I see code smell getting worse in recent decades... Have a nice day, =3 ▶ this video

The best response is to rate limit nuisance traffic to 1kbps, and setup fail2ban firewall rules to trip a ban on scans/bot-blind-probes. In general, abuse reports are often useful for kicking users from services involved in illegal activities. If you don't get a response, than black-hole the entire IP blocks and their routes. i.e. play possum, and they will eventually get bored enough to find a softer target. The other users are collateral damage, but if they aren't a customer... than who gives a toss. =) ▶ this video

Ellen Ripley would approve. "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." ▶ this video

"Nuke em from orbit" is a quote from the movie Aliens: ▶ this video I think (hope) it's being used in that playful way.