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Re:Show HN: Hashmap.me – Simple HTTP-Based Data Storage and ... by RockRobotRock on Friday January 05, 2024 @09:13PM (#38887667)
So what? I could C2 a botnet right now with base64'ed hacker news comments. You don't need a captcha to register an account.
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Re:Show HN: Hashmap.me – Simple HTTP-Based Data Storage and ... by Retr0id on Friday January 05, 2024 @09:31PM (#38887756)
HN has a system for reporting and responding to abuse.
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Re:Show HN: Hashmap.me – Simple HTTP-Based Data Storage and ... by RockRobotRock on Friday January 05, 2024 @11:30PM (#38888436)
Yeah I feel you I'm just trying to point out the fact that there are a lot of ways to read and write arbitrary data pseudo-anonymously.
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Re:Show HN: Hashmap.me – Simple HTTP-Based Data Storage and ... by Retr0id on Saturday January 06, 2024 @06:52AM (#38890672)
As a one-off there are many ways, but if you want to scale things up then you run out of options pretty fast. OP potentially just made themselves the new lowest hanging fruit.
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Re:Show HN: Hashmap.me – Simple HTTP-Based Data Storage and ... by RockRobotRock on Saturday January 06, 2024 @10:07PM (#38898032)
Good point.
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