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How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio

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Re: How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio

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Post by gregorymichael »

artursapek wrote: post #27

I've done a similar thing with Southwest Airline's check-in. They let people get seated based on the order in which they check in for their flight. So right before the 24 hour period began I would run a script that tried to check me in repeatedly until it succeeded. Usually got really good seats. EDIT: to those asking for the source, it was just a bash script that I have probably lost. The GitHub linked in this subth…

Greg from Twilio here. I love Southwest[1] and have wanted to do something like this forever. Would you be up for sharing the source? Can drop me a note at gb@twilio.com.

[1]: http://baugues.com/southwest

Re: How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio

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gregorymichael wrote: post #31
artursapek wrote: post #27

I've done a similar thing with Southwest Airline's check-in. They let people get seated based on the order in which they check in for their flight. So right before the 24 hour period began I would run a script that tried to check me in repeatedly until it succeeded. Usually got really good seats. EDIT: to those asking for the source, it was just a bash script that I have probably lost. The GitHub linked in this subth…

Greg from Twilio here. I love Southwest[1] and have wanted to do something like this forever. Would you be up for sharing the source? Can drop me a note at gb@twilio.com. [1]: http://baugues.com/southwest

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Re: How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio

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Post by elyrly »

artursapek wrote: post #27

I've done a similar thing with Southwest Airline's check-in. They let people get seated based on the order in which they check in for their flight. So right before the 24 hour period began I would run a script that tried to check me in repeatedly until it succeeded. Usually got really good seats. EDIT: to those asking for the source, it was just a bash script that I have probably lost. The GitHub linked in this subth…

I would love to check this out as well. richard@bugcrowd.com

Re: How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio

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Post by fapjacks »

makr99 wrote: post #25

I was in the US and want to immigrate to Canada because of US broken H1B immigration system ( for me it will take 9 years to get a greencard). Here is what I did - The immigration website of Saskatchewan province opens up randomly to apply for immigration. I missed it many times because there is no indication other than the "Apply" button being enabled and a small text in their homepage which says "Applications are n…

That's along the lines of what I do when I am waiting for a dedicated machine from OVH, since they list all of their clearance machines on a special page and you have to keep checking them. So I just used my script with Twilio to send me SMS when it's available to buy. Done that all three times I needed a box. I would not call it "hacking" though.

Re: How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio

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Post by necrodome »

gregorymichael wrote: post #31
artursapek wrote: post #27

I've done a similar thing with Southwest Airline's check-in. They let people get seated based on the order in which they check in for their flight. So right before the 24 hour period began I would run a script that tried to check me in repeatedly until it succeeded. Usually got really good seats. EDIT: to those asking for the source, it was just a bash script that I have probably lost. The GitHub linked in this subth…

Greg from Twilio here. I love Southwest[1] and have wanted to do something like this forever. Would you be up for sharing the source? Can drop me a note at gb@twilio.com. [1]: http://baugues.com/southwest

I used this last year for ~ 10 flights. https://github.com/aortbals/southwest-checkin

Re: How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio

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Post by ganoushoreilly »

fapjacks wrote: post #34
makr99 wrote: post #25

I was in the US and want to immigrate to Canada because of US broken H1B immigration system ( for me it will take 9 years to get a greencard). Here is what I did - The immigration website of Saskatchewan province opens up randomly to apply for immigration. I missed it many times because there is no indication other than the "Apply" button being enabled and a small text in their homepage which says "Applications are n…

That's along the lines of what I do when I am waiting for a dedicated machine from OVH, since they list all of their clearance machines on a special page and you have to keep checking them. So I just used my script with Twilio to send me SMS when it's available to buy. Done that all three times I needed a box. I would not call it "hacking" though.

I think hacking in a sense of having a problem and piecing together a solution is the context they were going for (much like hackernews) vs traditional escalation type hacking.

Re: How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio

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Post by [deleted] »

fapjacks wrote: post #34
makr99 wrote: post #25

I was in the US and want to immigrate to Canada because of US broken H1B immigration system ( for me it will take 9 years to get a greencard). Here is what I did - The immigration website of Saskatchewan province opens up randomly to apply for immigration. I missed it many times because there is no indication other than the "Apply" button being enabled and a small text in their homepage which says "Applications are n…

That's along the lines of what I do when I am waiting for a dedicated machine from OVH, since they list all of their clearance machines on a special page and you have to keep checking them. So I just used my script with Twilio to send me SMS when it's available to buy. Done that all three times I needed a box. I would not call it "hacking" though.

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