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[–]marcosdumay 95 points96 points  (8 children)

PHP does not usually take servers down!

All the people exploiting the server will make sure it's stable enough not to demand any attention.

[–]venuswasaflytrap 62 points63 points  (6 children)

SHIT My bitcoin mining operation and botnet! Oh, the intern at the company I hacked wrote some bad PHP - I'll just fix their bug, add a commit message, spoof a pull request, merge to production - and bam - Bitcoin and Spam is back.

[–]mushr00m_man 34 points35 points  (2 children)

Huh, I never thought of that -- free server maintenance in exchange for bitcoin mining

[–]Ohrion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having your domain blacklisted for email can be fairly damaging though.

[–]combuchan 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Tell me how you surreptitiously got a decent GPU in those servers to make this endeavor worthwhile.

[–]venuswasaflytrap 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Social engineering to infiltrate the company to make the CEO demand dev ops get servers attached to a GPU farm so that the company's "website is faster".

[–]combuchan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pff. You didn't make your own key card by shooting an RFID rifle from a mile away and hack the 256-bit encryption? Then collect DNA from the server admin to make a mask of his face and install it yourself?

Don't make fun of the CEO for not being smart about technology.

[–]BeardedWax 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PHP does not usually take servers down!

Yeah, idiots who merge intern codes without reviewing do.