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I'm starting to understand that most earnest users of glitch have no idea the extent to which it enabled and was abused to do shitty things -despite the commend
by monster_truck 1y ago
I'm starting to understand that most earnest users of glitch have no idea the extent to which it enabled and was abused to do shitty things -despite the commendable efforts of everyone there.
- alwa 1y agoSince sibling commenters asked—the abuse mainly involved a heckuva lot of phishing, last I heard; for example: https://threatpost.com/spear-phishing-exploits-glitch-steal-credentials/176449/ https://threatpost.com/spear-phishing-exploits-glitch-steal-... https://www.netskope.com/blog/glitch-hosted-phishing-uses-telegram-fake-captchas-to-target-navy-federal-credit-union-customers https://www.netskope.com/blog/glitch-hosted-phishing-uses-te... Apparently the free ephemeral apps were (1) free, (2) easy to make and easy to make many of, and (3) hosted on infrastructure that targets tended to trust.
- metalliqaz 1y agoI'm out of the loop... what shitty things?
- NBJack 1y agoI'll do you one better: WTH is/was Glitch? I think I'm so far out of the loop I've reached lagrange point 2.
- KeychainPirate 1y agoIt was a low-code "make your own website" platform. The sort of thing that was popular before myspace/facebook/medium style walled gardens took over. Fastly bought it because they were/are desperate to pivot away from CDN, since CDN has negative margins.
- Macha 1y agoLow code tool plus hosting platform, and also the final form of Fog Creek which you may have heard about from Joel on Software blog posts if you read tech blogs 15 years ago
- absurdo 1y agoHow many cuils are we talking about?
- hoseja 1y agoI would like to report an instance of heavy Baader-Meinhof as just yesterday I randomly wondered how many cuils are actually genuinely achievable in simple text and it's two at most IMO.
- nemomarx 1y agoany good look at that side of it?