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WeAreDevelopers LIVE: Scammer Payback with Python, Grok Goes Unhinged, The Future of Chromium and mo

Dan Cranney , Chris Heilmann , Brian Rountree

When a scammer sent engineer Brian Roundtree a phishing link, he retaliated. He used Python to flood their unsecured database with 12 million fake records.

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