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dataviz1000yesterday at 11:25 PM0 repliesview on HN

> to harden a system you need to spend more tokens discovering exploits than attackers will spend exploiting them.

I, for the NFL front offices, created a script that exposed an API to fully automate Ticketmaster through the front end so that the NFL could post tickets on all secondary markets and dynamic price the tickets so if rain on a Sunday was expected they could charge less. Ticketmaster was slow to develop an API. Ticketmaster couldn't provide us permission without first developing the API first for legal reasons but told me they would do their best to stop me.

They switched over to PerimeterX which took me 3 days to get past.

Last week someone posted an article here about ChatGPT using Cloudflare Turnstile. [0] First, the article made some mistakes how it works. Second, I used the [AI company product] and the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) to completely rewrite all the scripts intercepting them before they were evaluated -- the same way I was able to figure out PerimeterX in 3 days -- and then recursively solve controlling all the finger printing so that it controls the profile. Then it created an API proxy to expose ChatGPT for free. It required some coaching about the technique but it did most of the work in 3 hours.

These companies are spending 10s of millions of dollars on these products and considering what OpenAI is boasting about security, they are worthless.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566865