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Re:How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account by shawabawa3 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:12PM (#20471287)
It's very easy to terraform 1000 nano machines on ec2, as he said it wouldn't be expensive at all. In fact, he estimates $150, but for 1000 nano machines for 10 minutes i believe it's under a dollar. Possibly nano machines aren't powerful enough to spam the verify endpoint enough
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Re:How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account by flatiron on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:39PM (#20471540)
200 curls can be ran from any ec2 instance. there is literally no overhead.

personally i would spin up a million lambda functions and just see what happens. each one def wouldn't get its own ip but maybe you would have good coverage?

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Re:How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account by fredsted on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:42PM (#20472184)
Wouldn't you be hitting EC2 limits pretty quickly though? I guess you could get them raised, but last time AWS wanted a valid reason.
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Re:How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account by shawabawa3 on Friday July 19, 2019 @07:00AM (#20477561)
> but last time AWS wanted a valid reason.

Yep - my reason is normally "I'm planning a project that needs more instances"

I doubt they even look at that field to be honest

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Re:How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account by merb on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:41PM (#20474659)
"load testing my website INSERT_VALID_WEBSITE_LINK"
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