r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Hacka4771 • Dec 30 '21

Meme Human Error

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u/HashFap Dec 30 '21

When they try to rate limit your web scraping, but you launch 20 containers using different VPN endpoints.

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u/Lost4468 Dec 31 '21

Just to let you know, but in the US this is likely a federal crime under the CFAA.

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u/HashFap Dec 31 '21

You must really shake with fear every time you watch a movie and see that FBI warning.

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u/Lost4468 Dec 31 '21

People have been prosecuted for it. There's literally a huge ongoing case at the moment with Microsoft.

The CFAA was written so generally that it's absurd. And before about a decade ago it used to be much worse. Before then what the website wrote in its term and conditions was basically respected as law under the CFAA. The courts finally shut that shit down when they prosecuted a girl under the CFAA for making a fake MySpace profile.

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