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Paranoid I hope, but best to use a VPN when doing shit like this, you don't know who your IP is being forwarded to.
Yeah, the AG put out a grumbling statement about investigating the people who did this. With the right chudge, they can probably argue it is a violation of the CFAA or some similar law. I doubt they will get very far, but you never want to be the lowest hanging fruit.
A bot someone I know was running made 232,419 submissions. Over 50k of them after captcha was added.
That data was utterly utterly useless to them. Completely monkey wrenched.
You ain't getting shit from anyone using the internet. 1 single person can break a system like this singlehandedly, and there are hundreds of thousands of us. I have no doubt that they received millions of submissions just from average people firing off a few manually, let alone with the bots added on top.
People say the innovation of the internet has been the “democratization” of culture. I disagree. It is the widespread availability of force multiplication. Culture is downstream from this.
Reminds me of the olden days when the Chans used to fire up the LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) to DDOS web sites they didn't like. This was back in the operation Clambake days when they were focused on disrupting Scientology.
Web forms like this are just begging for someone to figure out which out-of-date CMS they used, spend a few minutes browsing the CVE database, and hit them with an exploit from six months ago. In Minecraft, of course.
