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Well, were you able to hack into the porn site? Python seems like an odd choice for hacking a website.

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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.

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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.

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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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