Lets find the new Maintainer and ruin his digital life (By exposing him)

greatsuspender / thegreatsuspender

A chrome extension for suspending all tabs to free up memory

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Lets find the new Maintainer and ruin his digital life (By exposing him) #1321

Open thecrazy opened 3 years ago

thecrazy commented 3 years ago

I say there has got to be some payback for trying to mess with us. The world has to know that you don't mess with open source.

mpragliola commented 3 years ago

@thecrazy is there any substantial proof that something shady was going on?

nuggs commented 3 years ago

@thecrazy is there any substantial proof that something shady was going on?

https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1263 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ld6pck/psa_please_uninstall_the_great_suspender_chrome/

I'm not sure if ruining someone's life is the correct course of action but if they are committing advertising fraud, it would be good for reporting them to the proper authorities.

mpragliola commented 3 years ago

I totally agree, @nuggs . We don't need to resort to harassment or bullying, which I really despise as reactions. Still if there is something going on it's good to expose it and report it.

LewisSpring commented 3 years ago

I think this is the wrong way to look at this. There is no point ruining someone's life like that, no matter how serious this is. It could be doxxing or similar, and also illegal We should be working out who is responsible for any acts that are illegal and then report those to the relevant people. People should want to ruin their life professionally via the proper authorities, If you'd like to put it that way.

tcvv commented 3 years ago

At this point I would be grateful if it was known it was advertising fraud. From all the things this extension could be doing on our behalf or information it could be collecting or changing, that's the least of my concerns.

iSWORD commented 3 years ago

dig -t A owebanalytics.com

;; ANSWER SECTION:
owebanalytics.com.  85769   IN  A   142.4.10.16

https://db-ip.com/142.4.10.16

If you lookup unifiedlayer.com you'll find a lot of articles on them hosting malicious content.

https://threatintelligence.guardicore.com/domain/unifiedlayer.com https://ericasadun.com/2018/05/15/the-festering-realities-of-bluehost-in-which-i-learn-about-unifiedlayer-com/

They wouldn't have hosted their CDN there if they didn't have bad intentions.

They're definitely bad people and deserve to be punished.

thecrazy commented 3 years ago

@thecrazy is there any substantial proof that something shady was going on?

1263

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ld6pck/psa_please_uninstall_the_great_suspender_chrome/

I'm not sure if ruining someone's life is the correct course of action but if they are committing advertising fraud, it would be good for reporting them to the proper authorities.

That's why I said "digital" I wouldn't actually condone ruining his "real" life. Guess I could have been clearer. But the guy should definitely feel the repercussions outside the confines of GitHub.

thecrazy commented 3 years ago

dig -t A owebanalytics.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
owebanalytics.com.    85769   IN  A   142.4.10.16
https://db-ip.com/142.4.10.16

If you lookup unifiedlayer.com you'll find a lot of articles on them hosting malicious content.

https://threatintelligence.guardicore.com/domain/unifiedlayer.com https://ericasadun.com/2018/05/15/the-festering-realities-of-bluehost-in-which-i-learn-about-unifiedlayer-com/

They wouldn't have hosted their CDN there if they didn't have bad intentions.

They're definitely bad people and deserve to be punished.

Thats a good find!

TheThor commented 3 years ago

The old maintainer could be clearing this up. We're still not sure what was compromised and how much. I would like to take this to the authorities.