Don't ask someone else to DDoS your competitors, even in jest, especially not in writing. Besides being in bad taste, this can come back to bite you.
On a related note, though, is there a way to limit CPU time on the headless chrome API?
We're running our PDF generator on docker images, and we built https://github.com/RealImage/proxywall to run as a 'sidecar' container that sits in from like nginx / Apache would - it rejects request that don't match certain criteria. If you business model supports it you might want to have a whitelist of domains that each account can take shots of.
> Don't ask someone else to DDoS your competitors, even in jest, especially not in writing. Besides being in bad taste, this can come back to bite you.
That was my first thought when I read the chat. It just seems stupid to even remotely suggest something like this.
> Don't ask someone else to DDoS your competitors, even in jest, especially not in writing. Besides being in bad taste, this can come back to bite you.
I'm sure there's inspecific biting precedent about using an overabundance of caution in writing about any jokes you might have made to any other person, maybe especially in a legal system where even the risk of having legal proceedings can cripple you for the rest of your life, but the guy literally said "No, don't. I was just joking" a few moments later.
Usually, a joke is just that. But this transcript is a conversation between a business owner and a hacker, where the hacker is likely in violation of the CFAA, and the owner is threatening legal action if the hacker doesn’t cease and desist. Once you cover that ground in a conversation, resist the urge to be funny.
On a related note, though, is there a way to limit CPU time on the headless chrome API?
We're running our PDF generator on docker images, and we built https://github.com/RealImage/proxywall to run as a 'sidecar' container that sits in from like nginx / Apache would - it rejects request that don't match certain criteria. If you business model supports it you might want to have a whitelist of domains that each account can take shots of.