Also: FUCK SCRIBD AND EVERYONE THAT UPLOADS STUFF THERE!
Sounds like the security community working together to minimize the effectiveness of a hacking community.
Bots ruined an once useful website with fake credentials that lead to nothing
Submitted 7 months ago by Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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joyjoy@lemm.ee 7 months ago
blackfire@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was thinking that. Flood the market with fakes to deter the average skript kiddie
taanegl@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The logic is a little problematic, because it also means you mislead ordinary users, and honestly the infosec industry has a conflict of interest as well.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 7 months ago
I see more spambots trying to monetize on desperate people. People try the link in the password field, that goes in a rabbit hole of concatenated ad.fly link “shorteners” that only show endless ads
lurch@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I think it just needs Captcha when adding a new entry.
NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And a rate limit
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This site was great for like a year. Then it got spammed to shit like every other coupon/deal site with expired or fake deals, or just garbage. It wasn’t even worth trying to find a single working code or account. I’d forgotten this site even existed I haven’t used it in such a long time.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
fuck scribd, just upload yer shit to researchgate like a normal person
WamGams@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
This website worked for me once, a bang bus credential.
Never found anything else it worked for, and the bang bus credential lasted for maybe 6 days.
can@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Do you need a specific file? Send me the scribd link.
Shurf116@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I agree, fuck scribd. I usually google “scribd free online downloader”, there’s a site (or maybe several sites, idc, I just use the first one) which allows you to somehow avoid the stupid paywall and registration
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sounds like its a case of Enshittification happening to that once useful website.
brian@programming.dev 7 months ago
this just looks like poor moderation, enshittification very specifically refers to monetization efforts of the company destroying the platform
InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 7 months ago
People when they learn a new word
Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
enshittification happened to scribd, not bugmenot
scribd used to offer free hosting for all pdf files, then when they hit critical user mass, they decided that only paid users can download the (mostly pirated) PDF files. Literally profiting from piracy while pretending it’s designed for business.
Cyyy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
i know that site from when i was still a teen and even the it was 99% fake creds. finding just one single working login for in a week was like finding a treasure for me.
glimse@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Guessing you’re younger than me because when I was a teen, this site was AMAZING!
Cyyy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
i’m almost 30 and was using (or trying to use…) the site when i was around 14-16 years old. dunno when the site first released thought. i stopped bothering after trying countless hours for weeks to use the site… but people just spammed fake accounts.