• xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      I almost did this for a different reason, people choose python because it has some pretty good web automation/scraping libraries to work with.

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      This was over 10 years ago, maybe 20. I wanted to pick up a new language and I seemed pretty driven, at the time, to hack a certain site. I think I gave up on it and as usual I enjoyed writing the code more than using the app.

      It didn’t use webscraping or anything too sophisticated. I just applied a few dictionaries I found online and ran everything through a series of anonymous proxies. Very brute force.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        Ha! I tried the same thing with some random sites like 20 years ago. I managed to get into a few of them and emailed the registered owner that they needed better security.