The World Is Broken, Right?

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There's tons of malicious actors out there hitting all sorts of things. So you have to, there's like, a fine balance between annoying your good users and stopping the bad people from from doing things. You can rate limit someone by ip address - i specifically do that, and it got, it bit me once. And somebody once had their entire a class of 100 students sign up for my course as part of the class. I said, hey, give me a list of email dress as quick as you can. And i got them up and running and they could do their class. But, uh, again, that's, that's an example of, uh, a process put in

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about ways to prevent malicious people from using or abusing your app.

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