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Comment by ben174

I don’t think it was some crazy bot net trying to make money off camping slots. It’s simply a bunch of Silicon Valley nerds that figured out how to automate the booking system for the most desirable camping spots in the bay. But a few of them got greedy I think. Not sure why.

One of my coworkers wrote a bot and shared it around the company. Not sure how far that bot spread but I’m sure other people did the same.

And by bot I mean a pretty trivial selenium script. The parks really should have had better defenses.

parent ben174 7 years ago

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