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It is potentially a human Denial of Service attack. Enough SMS nags and phone life becomes impossible. I give it a couple days before it's abused enough for the
by stuntkite 8y ago
It is potentially a human Denial of Service attack. Enough SMS nags and phone life becomes impossible. I give it a couple days before it's abused enough for their Twillio account to get flagged. There isn't any validation. I could just start having two strangers screw with each other. You could make a circle of annoyance or use your own Twillio to kind of botnet some large scale annoyance.
I accidentally human DDoSd my boss once by submitting multiple Azure support requests at level A and put in his cell phone number. Several support people started responding but they put them all on the same Exchange list so they kept responding to each other and it sent him an email and text. It took hours to clear it up, his phone was so buzzy he had to turn it off all afternoon while I attempted to stop the helper train with more texts, calls, and emails.
- relaunched 8y agoI'm really sorry about your previous experience. The product is for people that otherwise get distracted and need a prompt to help them get on task.
- stuntkite 8y agoI'm just trying to point out how people are going to use your product. Please blog in a few weeks about the fun things you get to mitigate!
- relaunched 8y agoWill do. We had to institute an exponential backoff, to stop from being too annoying. However, we're seeing ~80 of the tasks assigned get completed AND there are power task creators that create a whole lot of tasks. It seems to be a good tool for type A personalities to manage those around them - but, it's still early.
- stuntkite 8y agoIt's sort of a free, automated, harassment robot. It's also pretty useful if you want to phish someone.