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Reverse Engineering with Joyce Lin - JSJ 577

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How to Hack a Website

I did not do anything illegal. I was taking advantage of web APIs that are perfectly observable and used in their websites. So it was only like that hack from a few months ago where the government website was putting the Social Security numbers in the HTML. But you know, because these APIs are usually only invoked via the web facade that they build, there are certain restrictions on how they're used. For example, if you want to perform multiple operations quickly, it's difficult. If you want to input a lot of values, it might be difficult because otherwise you would need to input it manually. so bypassing the UI and going directly to the API layer lets you be more, I don't

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