The most impressive thing about this is that the offending app doesn't even display the image, it was some copypasta code the app developers apparently didn't even understand.
the hard part about this, if it were not wikimedia but some individual person's server, is that the traditional method of using something like an apache rewrite rule to replace the jpg/png with goatse wouldn't work, because the image isn't even being displayed.
Even worse: You might be seen as an easy way to Goatse people. Just give the yahoos the URL of an image you're rewriting to be the infamous gape. The traffic would only grow once you came to be known for Goatse as a Service.
> Goatse as a Service (YC S21)
Implemented via several dozen geographically distributed 1U servers with 10 or 100GbE network interfaces, and anycast DNS. You could do it pretty much the same as anycast DNS recursive resolvers, but all sharing the same hostname, IP and TLS keys.
We need goatse anycast address
You can totally get your own asn, acquire a /24 of ipv4 space, and announce as anycast your netblock containing the goatse httpd from multiple geographic locations.
Help us solve the problem of hotlinking.
Welcome to the Internet. Here we welcome amateurs and it shows. Or not, like in this case.
Don’t know why you would go with didn’t understand rather than didn’t care. I thought the prevailing theory was that it was used for measuring internet speeds.