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by RockRobotRock 898 days ago
So what? I could C2 a botnet right now with base64'ed hacker news comments. You don't need a captcha to register an account.
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HN has a system for reporting and responding to abuse.
Yeah I feel you I'm just trying to point out the fact that there are a lot of ways to read and write arbitrary data pseudo-anonymously.
As a one-off there are many ways, but if you want to scale things up then you run out of options pretty fast. OP potentially just made themselves the new lowest hanging fruit.
Good point.