fix: drop the "Mock Podcast" kind:10154 spam flood before consuming

Someone is flooding thousands of identical mock NIP-F4 show-metadata events.
They share an exact fingerprint — title "Mock Podcast", description and content
both "Headless test feed" — so match that and refuse to cache them.

- PodcastMetadataEvent.isMockSpam() encodes the fingerprint (all three fields
  must match, so a real show sharing one field is never flagged); unit-tested.
- LocalCache's PodcastMetadataEvent consume branch returns without storing when
  it matches, so the spam never reaches the cache, feeds, search, or the merged
  podcast list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JGa1EM5KWyDo1o5Yr6sS18
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2026-06-30 20:50:33 +00:00
parent 1eeda56b51
commit 821e9bafdd
3 changed files with 83 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -3754,7 +3754,12 @@ object LocalCache : ILocalCache, ICacheProvider {
}
is PodcastMetadataEvent -> {
consumeBaseReplaceable(event, relay, wasVerified)
// Drop the known "Mock Podcast" spam flood instead of caching thousands of them.
if (event.isMockSpam()) {
false
} else {
consumeBaseReplaceable(event, relay, wasVerified)
}
}
is AuthoredPodcastsEvent -> {
@@ -83,9 +83,22 @@ class PodcastMetadataEvent(
*/
fun claimedAuthors() = tags.mapNotNull(AuthorTag::parse)
/**
* Fingerprint of a known spam flood — thousands of identical headless-test "Mock Podcast"
* shows. Their structure is exactly `title="Mock Podcast"`, `description="Headless test feed"`,
* `content="Headless test feed"`. Matched so the client can drop them before consuming.
*/
fun isMockSpam(): Boolean =
content == MOCK_SPAM_CONTENT &&
title() == MOCK_SPAM_TITLE &&
description() == MOCK_SPAM_CONTENT
companion object {
const val KIND = 10154
private const val MOCK_SPAM_TITLE = "Mock Podcast"
private const val MOCK_SPAM_CONTENT = "Headless test feed"
fun createAddress(pubKey: HexKey) = Address(KIND, pubKey, FIXED_D_TAG)
fun createAddressATag(pubKey: HexKey) = ATag(KIND, pubKey, FIXED_D_TAG, null)
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
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package com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nipF4Podcasts
import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip01Core.core.HexKey
import com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nipF4Podcasts.metadata.PodcastMetadataEvent
import kotlin.test.Test
import kotlin.test.assertFalse
import kotlin.test.assertTrue
/** Verifies the fingerprint used to drop the "Mock Podcast" spam flood, and that it spares real shows. */
class PodcastMockSpamTest {
private fun event(
title: String?,
description: String?,
content: String,
): PodcastMetadataEvent {
val tags =
buildList {
title?.let { add(arrayOf("title", it)) }
description?.let { add(arrayOf("description", it)) }
}.toTypedArray()
return PodcastMetadataEvent(EMPTY_ID, EMPTY_ID, 0, tags, content, EMPTY_ID)
}
@Test
fun `the exact mock spam structure matches`() {
assertTrue(event("Mock Podcast", "Headless test feed", "Headless test feed").isMockSpam())
}
@Test
fun `real shows are not flagged`() {
// A genuine show that happens to share none of the three fields.
assertFalse(event("My Real Podcast", "A show about things", "Welcome!").isMockSpam())
// Same title only — not enough.
assertFalse(event("Mock Podcast", "A different description", "Real content").isMockSpam())
// Same content only — not enough.
assertFalse(event("Another Show", "Another desc", "Headless test feed").isMockSpam())
// Missing tags entirely.
assertFalse(event(null, null, "Headless test feed").isMockSpam())
}
companion object {
private val EMPTY_ID: HexKey = "0".repeat(64)
}
}