Chaos Monster
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Chaos Monster is an opt-in IndieWeb project by 
Eddie Hinkle that aims to help IndieWeb resiliency similarly to how Chaos Monkey helps Netflix.
It is currently in-development, but when finished, you will be able to opt-in to receiving Chaos Monster interactions over various IndieWeb protocols, by sending it a webmention. By sending a delete webmention for the same post, it will leave you alone.
I'm currently collecting ideas and inspiration for how Chaos Monster can help YOUR site with better resiliency.
Ideas
- low level: slow network responses
- look at https://github.com/kbsriram/checkmention for ideas of different kinds of content to send
- low level: gzip bombs, crazy HTML (had mf2 parsers crash on real websites with thousands of tags deep nesting)
- avatars: giant, blinking, tiny, svg, weird file formats, imagemagick exploits
- avatars: http://example.com/script.php then attempt to execute the php file if the server downloads it (see https://github.com/bastianallgeier/kirby-webmentions/commit/55bedea78ae9af916a9a41497bd9996417851502)
- Research OAuth 2.0 potential issues and try sites' IndieAuth/Micropub auth safety
- docs on common oauth pitfalls https://oauth.net/security/
- WebSub surely has some fun corners too
- idea: for those that opt in? Send spam webmentions
- For those that don't opt-in but are obviously part of the IndieWeb, (like irc-people) consider sending a single spam webmention to prompt them to consider their webmention workflow, and then don't send any more unless they opt-in