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Toxic Side of Free. Or: how I lost the love for...

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June 26, 2015
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Toxic Side of Free. Or: how I lost the love for my side project.

The dark side of story to the open source project: JS Bin.
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Remy Sharp

June 26, 2015
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Transcript

  1. Toxic Side of Free Or: how I lost the love

    for my side project Remy Sharp • @rem • remysharp.com

  2. Part 1: DDoS Part 2: Spam, spam, spam Part 3:

    Havoc via registered users Part 4: The costs Part 5: Police

  3. Back story

  4. Start of DDoS Part 1

  5. None
  6. None
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  8. fail2ban

  9. 204 No Content

  10. Spam Part 2

  11. None
  12. None

  13. Anonymous output limited to 90 minutes

  14. X-Robots-Tag: nofollow

  15. Registered users wreaking havoc Part 3

  16. None
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  18. The cost Part 4

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  24. Needs. Plan.

  25. Police Part 5

  26. None
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  30. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  31. Remy Sharp • @rem • remysharp.com https://jsbin.com/upgrade