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Cool breakdown. A few thoughts: 1. I would never be so brazen (brave? have the guts?) as to try all of this. I would expect to be rate limited and throttled o
by avg_dev 3y ago
Cool breakdown.
A few thoughts:
1. I would never be so brazen (brave? have the guts?) as to try all of this. I would expect to be rate limited and throttled or banned or get a nasty letter from a lawyer or something.
2. The HTTPie thing was interesting. I am still not quite sure what that application is, but I am definitely going to stick with curl now.
3. They demknstrated a number of interesting strategies unrelated to tech per se like registering that new domain and getting people to add them as a guest account and making those fake posts on what I presume is a university message board type thing. I bet this is how people who are good at stuff like “growth hacking” or developing engagement numbers and such work. Pretty clever. Still makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.
A cool story. I was hoping the demo image would say “you at $300 of omelets” but I guess it is probably not that fine grained?
- crazymoka 3y agoReminds me of a fun project I did in 2005. I made a course schedule generator that once you picked your courses it showed price comparison of text book prices from local university bookstore and amazon. I made a bit of money before receiving a lawyer call from the university. Funny part was, they could have used our course scheduler for students but no, they wanted students to still hand pick their classes one by one. This let you block off times you didn't want class and it would make a schedule around that. Reason was, "students might think they are registering for their class when they are not". We had an alert stating we didn't actually pick the classes and to log in __link__ to start. had the same warning everywhere. I lost the battle. :)
- lubesGordi 3y agoI'll be less nice than you and say I'd be pretty mad if I was building something legit but lost out to a project like this. You not being brazen to phish all your fellow students just means you're not an asshole (and I thank you for that).
- tr3ntg 3y agoPlaying devil's advocate here... university systems feel like a great place to poke around recklessly like this. Especially when presented publicly. Any holes in the system that enabled such ease of abuse should be patched up. I don't know the author but would guess these hacks would never be used "in production" or with any system expecting to earn money. They're pretty blunt about how hacky it all is, and they don't sound happy to have done it.
- masfuerte 3y agoEh? They invited the other students to add them as guests. Nobody was phished.
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- bhaney 3y ago> I would expect to be rate limited and throttled or banned or get a nasty letter from a lawyer or something None of those things should ever prevent you from sating your curiosity.