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> Kevin Zheng wrote a whole bunch of scripts to do the dialing, and over the course of several months, we collected more than 10,000 truly random Several is 3
by rvba 3y ago
> Kevin Zheng wrote a whole bunch of scripts to do the dialing, and over the course of several months, we collected more than 10,000 truly random
Several is 3 to 5? So 4 months.
10 000 videos over 4 months. So 2500 per month. If we assume 20 work days.. that's 125 per day. Over 8 hours.. 15,6 per hour.
Those scripts seem to be quite slow? Was this done by hand? A video every 3 minutes.
- defrost 3y agoThe context you omitted is: Turns out there are 2^64 possible YouTube addresses, an enormous number: 18.4 quintillion. There are lots of YouTube videos, but not that many. Let’s guess for a moment that there are 1 billion YouTube videos – if you picked URLs at random, you’d only get a valid address roughly once every 18.4 billion tries. I mean, sure, they did reduce that a little: Jason found a couple of cheats that makes the method roughly 32,000 times as efficient, meaning our “phone call” connects lots more often. With that in mind, how many attempts did they make to get a hit every three minutes? It's surprising that they weren't throttled back for making excessive requests.
- 0xDEADFED5 3y agothe cheat was using a botnet of 32k devices, lol