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Was there something stopping you from doing that before? A lot of places you can even do it online.
by freehunter 9y ago
Was there something stopping you from doing that before? A lot of places you can even do it online.
- spydum 9y agoliterally effort. when you lower the attackers effort and cost to try an attack, the attempts generally go up.
- freehunter 9y agoI meant, you could build a bot that calls. We have the technology already, and the people on the other end probably won't notice. Plus the "do it over the Internet" thing where screen scraping and scripting is super easy.
- jbob2000 9y agoYes, the time commitment of having one person pickup the phone and place 100+ phone calls (and the suspicion on the other end when you call back with a new name but the same voice). You could write a screen scraper to book online through the various booking systems, but each booking system probably has its own restrictions on how many accounts you can have and how often they can book. You skip all of these protections when you phone your reservation in (arguably, the restaurant staff should be enforcing these protections when they pick up the phone, but restaurant staff are often overworked and apathetic).
- fudged71 9y agoThen the restaurants will just stop taking phone reservations. Either no reservations or online-only.