[sdoering]

Well that is quite interesting. A service that - as far as I can tell - just got itself started by hacking the local travel business, blacklists a dev, who just hacks his way to "expose" their API?

Isn't Uber fighting hard to deregulate a market, after it entered it and turned it upside down - for better or worse?

Wasn't the Uber-CEO the absolute Ayn Rand disciple? [1]

[1] http://pando.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/

Not that these two things have anything in common, but I find it slightly amusing, that one the one hand...

... well, I believe you know, what I wanted to say.

[maxk42]

He essentially DDOS'd Über. It's a practical matter rather than a philosophical one.

[sdoering]

I was not saying, that he did the right thing. By all standards, he did not.

I just smiled, when I read this and thought back about Uber and what their take on rules and regulations were/are, when it comes to their business. I was really not advocating for DDOSing the service.

[varelse]

It does seem the more rational response would be to rate-limit him (and by him I mean everyone) down to once every 30 seconds or so rather than panic and ban him forever. I once wrote a script to analyze queries of one of the major search engines. As long as I only sent a request every 2 seconds, it was not a problem. Once I crossed that threshold, within a minute, kaboom.

By the time I did that I had more than enough data for my nefarious (actually mostly innocuous) purposes at the time and just wanted to see when I'd get crushed.