Botnet Takes Over Twitch Install and Partially Installs Gentoo

WarJolt writes: The plug was pulled on the attempt to crowd-source an Arch Linux install after a botnet threatened to take over the process. Twitch Installs has been rebooted by the twitchintheshell community and Twitch Installs users managed to reinstall Arch only to be thwarted by the botnet. The botnet managed to partially install Gentoo. Users are currently in the process of reinstalling Arch.

Comments

Re:I'm torn on this.

[quantaman]

On the one hand, I'm not fond of black hats. On the other, that's really, really funny.

The summary said it was a botnet, which suggests a lot of hijacked computers (and illegal unethical activity), but unless there's evidence that wasn't mentioned it could just have easily been a bunch of bots running on the person's own laptop.

Re:What language is this written in?

[blavallee]

Yeah, it discusses a strange experiment, assuming everyone understands the details.

Basically, it's a democratic attempt to enter commands into the CLI.
With the end goal of installing the Arch Linux OS.

Because the most popular command entered, wins. The experiment was hijacked by someone using a botnet, resulting in a majority.
Nothing malicious, most likely a prank. Since the hijack was installing an alternative distro (Gentoo).

If the organizers don't want to see something like this happen again, pehaps they should check out the Electoral College

anyone else completely confused by the summary?

[advocate_one]

what the fsck is 'twitch'? Does anyone really care?

Re:anyone else completely confused by the summary?

[fisted]

It's basically a shitty stream provider with frequent outages and if you allow enough 3rd party javascripts and trackers, you get A Flash Based Video Player!