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Years ago we had an opsec competition called "Karmageddon". The goal was to get as many upvotes on Reddit on an account in one day, with absolutely no ethical l
by kyledrake 2y ago
Years ago we had an opsec competition called "Karmageddon". The goal was to get as many upvotes on Reddit on an account in one day, with absolutely no ethical limitations to achieving that.
I was winning against 10-20 people by posting a lot of random "f this politician" garbage in the political subreddits (this was in late 2016 and it was a feeding frenzy), until someone posted a "check out this picture of me and my brother I haven't seen in 10 years wearing the same Ghostbusters shirt!" post. It wasn't his brother, he found it somewhere, but it was going viral and I was about to lose.
So I filed a DMCA takedown request with Reddit, and they deleted the post and the picture very quickly after, no questions asked. I ended up winning the competition, but I think we ended up giving the prize to the Ghostbusters guy anyways.
The DMCA is 100% an attack strategy, it works.