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The Syntax Giveaway Site - Codes, Bots, Tech Stack and More!
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How to Stop a Botnet From Sending Requests to the Database
At the peak of it, we were seeing 7 or 8 requests per second to the API endpoint. Scott made them five characters long, alpha numeric, which means that there are 42 million different combinations. The ability of you to possibly guess one of them by looping over it was extremely low. If we were to do it again, I would probably make it six characters so that that would go from 42 million to 1.7 billion per mutations.
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