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Re:How Bad Rails Conventions Got Me a Weekend Stay with the ... by WendyTheWillow on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:18PM (#38197949)
The incrementing itself wasn't the issue! It's all the other stuff around their scraping and apparently their provable desire to harm AT&T that got them convicted.
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Re:How Bad Rails Conventions Got Me a Weekend Stay with the ... by thrownblown on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @06:01PM (#38198493)
Definitely not going to argue with you on that. But it did all start with the simple addition to the URL.
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Re:How Bad Rails Conventions Got Me a Weekend Stay with the ... by pests on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @08:45PM (#38199938)
Odd they didn't use his handle. I figured it was weev but never knew his real name.
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