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> Evidence of Meow bot attack (a malicious script that deletes data). Wasn't the whole point of Meow to delete erroneously public-facing data to prevent malici
by ThePadawan 6y ago
> Evidence of Meow bot attack (a malicious script that deletes data).
Wasn't the whole point of Meow to delete erroneously public-facing data to prevent malicious use?
Calling it a malicious script is ...debatable.
- ROARosen 6y agoThe definition of "malicious" is (acc. to Google): "characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm." The Meow bot "intended to do harm", that is, to databases. Of course the creator might have had "lofty" goals and high hopes that this attack will encourage better database managers to harden their security practices in the future. But the Bot itself is definitely "malicious".