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0 pointsCGamesPlay1y ago0 comments

This is just a run-of-the-mill DoS attack, with the astronomically unlikely jackpot of additionally invaliding a random unknown user's API key when you get a hit.

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vitiral1y ago

Astronomically is an understatement. If they made 1000 requests per second they might have a 1% chance of revoking a key before the heat death of the universe.

Cracking hashing requires large parallel processing, something you can't do if you're API limited

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0 pointsCGamesPlay1y ago0 comments

This is just a run-of-the-mill DoS attack, with the astronomically unlikely jackpot of additionally invaliding a random unknown user's API key when you get a hit.

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vitiral1y ago

Astronomically is an understatement. If they made 1000 requests per second they might have a 1% chance of revoking a key before the heat death of the universe.

Cracking hashing requires large parallel processing, something you can't do if you're API limited

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