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TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago

Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour"

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Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour"

Arthur BesseA to

TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago

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Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour" - Waxy.org

An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.

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Yeah, my team would have been really embarrassed for missing this test case.

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