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by arch-ninja 1816 days ago
> In an attempt to add some confusion to his operation, I decided to create a little script. This little script would send him about 5000 different combinations of the above parameters in a completely random fashion. Fun.

I've done this with college scammers requesting email + passwords, loads of fun. Would highly recommend as it turns an O(1) operation (db full of valid stolen credentials) back into O(n) (randomly guess which credentials you stole are valid).

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You’re assuming they don’t store a time stamp with the DB entries. It would be fairly trivial to filter out the 5000 fake entries that all arrived within a minute of each other.