Guess who recently asked a company if he could get access to the API they use to load stuff in their frontend from their backend and got told “Nope and btw scraping is against our TOS”?
Well, if you won’t give it to me the info that you provide anyway the easy way, I can still take it the hard way. 🤷♂️
Maybe you should just try being lucky. I found a critical security vulnerability while working on my scraping project. I told them, they paid me and gave me written permission to scrape.
Yes, because any circumvention of any form of security, be it as useless as a hardcoded default password, is considered a crime in German law. So even the discovery of a security flaw puts you with one foot in jail, because technically you did something you are not supposed to.
we’re in web 3.0 now, apis and data access are a thing of the past. so scraping it is!
Guess who recently asked a company if he could get access to the API they use to load stuff in their frontend from their backend and got told “Nope and btw scraping is against our TOS”?
Well, if you won’t give it to me the info that you provide anyway the easy way, I can still take it the hard way. 🤷♂️
i mean i haven’t signed anything…
“by using this site you agree to…”
I’m not using your site. And I agree to nothing. Now, go GET for me.
Maybe you should just try being lucky. I found a critical security vulnerability while working on my scraping project. I told them, they paid me and gave me written permission to scrape.
You are braver than I am because here in Germany usually people get sued for reporting security vulnerabilities.
Yep, don’t do that if you live in a Internet ist Neuland country.
tf? They should offer you a job if anything.
That is if you’d live in a place with an open attitude toward new technologies.
But the technology is already there in place, and you get sued if you point out security flaws in it? Crazy.
Yes, because any circumvention of any form of security, be it as useless as a hardcoded default password, is considered a crime in German law. So even the discovery of a security flaw puts you with one foot in jail, because technically you did something you are not supposed to.
Time for some reform. Finding security holes is very important and benefits everyone.
You scrape 'em boy, you scrape 'em good!