[HN Gopher] Uncovering Fraud in Mexico with the Cheerio API
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Uncovering Fraud in Mexico with the Cheerio API
Author : gunnr15
Score : 9 points
Date : 2022-02-01 19:42 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| wildzzz wrote:
| I would have been concerned about the government trying to go
| after me for pulling data from their website in an unintended
| fashion and using it to expose their incompetence. Like how the
| targeting of the journalist that broke the story about teachers
| in Missouri having their SSNs stored in a table on a webpage but
| just having that column hidden. Or like prosecution of Aaron
| Swartz for using a guest account given to him by his university
| to bulk download journal articles from JSTOR.
|
| Nonetheless, interesting article and I hope something comes from
| the crimes uncovered.
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