“Forget about hacking an app or database: for a small cadre of hackers in San Francisco, it’s all about writing code that can score them a great table at a hot restaurant. According to the BBC, these developers and programmers have designed bots that scan restaurant Websites for open tables and reserve them. Diogo Mónica, a security engineer with e-commerce firm Square, is one of those programmers. A self-described foodie, he decided to get around his inability to score a table at the ultra-popular State Bird Provisions by writing a script that sent out an email every time the restaurant’s reservation page changed.”
http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/how-hackers-use-bots-to-score-prime-restaurant-reservations/
Related posts:
Health Insurance Costs: $16,351 a Year per Family
Marshall Islanders, affected by U.S. nuclear testing, "want to go home, that's the bottom line"
Drug-sniffing Dogs and their Handlers
Bitcoin Not Bombs
Israeli Bombs Over Syria, Part Two
WordPress.com criticizes PayPal, credit card firms for restrictions, now lets you pay with Bitcoin
FBI doesn't want to have to force tech companies to weaken encryption
The Ex-Google Hacker Taking on the World’s Spy Agencies
Colorado Recreational Weed Sales Top $14 Million In First Month
Man Arrested for Video Recording Military Exercise from City-Owned Parking Lot
Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die
11 Year-Old Boy Suspended From School Because He Said 'Gun'
The Cost of Terror in Brussels
Israeli Soldier Recounts Harrowing, Heroic War Story Of Killing 8-Month-Old Child
Virgin Galactic “gearing up” for second powered SpaceShipTwo flight