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I inadvertently caused a VERY VERY large corporation that is a household name to change its TOS through one of my little automation scripts. By little, I mean a
by WaitWhatHuh 4y ago
I inadvertently caused a VERY VERY large corporation that is a household name to change its TOS through one of my little automation scripts. By little, I mean a few dozen lines of code and some ingenuity.
The corp in question: Begins with V and ends with z and likes to screw customers.
All above board, approved by several levels of various teams/depts. The head of a specific dept sent me several strongly worded texts/voicemails. He was rather expressive to say the least over something that cost $0.
I could go in more detail but there are a few NDAs I signed.
- pinkcan 4y agoif you really wanted to write about it, you could have just avoided referring to the corp name at all, tos and ndas, and just write about the technical details of this script. you could even have done so under a throwaway.
- netsharc 4y agoBut the technical details would make him identifiable? Although I agree with you, as it is, OP is just bragging about the effect while we're looking to be impressed by the technical details of the hack.
- severine 4y agoThe corp in question: Begins with V and ends with z and likes to screw customers. Typo? Maybe ends with n?
- rationalist 4y agoWhy sign NDAs? If you weren't violating the then TOS, what did you get in exchange to sign them?