Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 weeks agoYou know you can just fill in what you want right? And the number goes up? They even put the format right there.
Ask ChatGPT to make you a script to fill in that form with Beautiful Soup. Takes 30 seconds, if you haven’t already.
It’s cool that you led with Estonia, the one that was botted to 100% signatures a couple of days ago.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You are an idiot.
No you cannot fill in any number you want.
This is an official EU webportal for formal citizens initiatives petitions.
Like, ok, I guess you could just spam it with a bot, and then INTERPOL comes after you for fucking with an official government website, potentially hundreds or thousands of counts of impersonation and lying on a government/legal document.
Like sure, go do a DDOS on I dunno, whitehouse.gov
That is approximately and equivalently stupid thing to do.
I repeat: You are an idiot.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
(16 words later)
lol
OK buddy, cybercrime never happens and interpol will come arrest your python script if it did because you messed with an EU “government” form that might have resulted in them having to get a 60 year old Greek politican to ask what a EULA was
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You don’t get it.
What happens if you try to just brute force guess at a bunch of possible credit card numbers and addresses and names in some kind of online store?
After maybe a couple of tries, 30 seconds or less of that… the system is rejecting your bullshit fake numbers everytime, and after enough, it auto ip bans you, sends an email to the security admin team, and your journey to getting a chat from INTERPOL or the FBI or what not has now officially begun.
This system doesn’t just accept any old random bullshit you give it.
It is not a random slapdash online poll.
Its only going to count up on that total signatures count if the system actually verifies the info you put in as being consistent with an actual, real, specific system.
I again repeat: You are an idiot.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
“an actual, real, specific person in the system”
What system is that?
“Sends an email to the security team”
I can’t tell if you’re my father trying to understand Facebook or my nephew trying to understand a mouse.