Rise of the Hypebots: Scripting Streetwear

DEF CON 27

Presented by: finalphoenix
Date: Saturday August 10, 2019
Time: 10:00 - 10:45
Location: Track 2

Buying Supreme is even harder when most of your competitors are AI. The era of bot purchasing has arrived and more often than not, purchasing shoes, shirts, and swag, requires shell scripting. We will look at how simplistic (and how complicated) purchasing bots have become, how to write them, and what companies are trying to do to fight them, and why they’re failing at conquering the machines.

finalphoenix

finalphoenix is a full-stack engineer who has been working on the web since man invented fire gifs. She likes React, Node, and the Unix fortune command. She specializes in web security and optimization, and in the process, discovered the dangerous world of automation to help her shop. Twitter: @finalphoenix


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