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Comment by beefhash | Hacker News Reader

Using a loop of that length (for ($i=0;$i<10000;$i++)) on a site allowing people to execute code, and then linking it to HN effectively amounts to a do-it-yourself DDoS. I don't think I wanna be the host of that site right now.

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The site itself picked up on this aswell. The following message appeared for me:

    "Abusive script
    This script was stopped while abusing our resources"

edit: Too slow: 504 Gateway Time-out

Shouldn't they cache the result?

A lesson they're learning right now, I suppose.

To find out later that not everything can be cached, e.g. time(), rand(), file_get_contents()... to find out further that no sys or lib call that contains I/O can be cached. And then damn it, why bother caching at all?

Which we could call 'suiciDDOS'

It's also being linked on Reddit for a double whammy DDoS.

... and it's down :) I guess they get this all the time.

They don't even caution about it.

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