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by sametmax 2566 days ago
30 years ago, on IRC, doing the same would have been considered a fun hack, and a tongue-in-cheek motivational project for beginners.

Different generation I suppose.

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Some people will try this exploit to get free stuff. in the 90s it would have been a few dozen at most, now it would be thousands. It ceases to be tongue-in-cheek when it becomes onerous.
My guess is more than the anomally will be detected and the hack will be blocked in 2 days.

Compared to the free phone hack with the cereal whistle that everybody though was so cool...