This does not look legit. There are 175,760 possible permutations of coupon codes, which looks to me they are trying to brute-force which coupon codes work. I'm not downloading a copy.
Is this legit? It doesn't look like it -- it just hammers (20 parallel connections) BinaryAge's ecommerce provider's site searching for all permutations of coupon codes.
The script makes 175760 permutations. For me the script takes around around 1.5 seconds to query the page each time. 175760 * 1.5 / 60 = 4394 minutes / 60 = 73.23 hours of constantly hitting the site. I'm not sure how the parallel connections it uses will impact the speed, but 3 days seems feasible. Not to say that this should ever be tried.
Yeah, it looks like it goes through each possible permutation of coupon codes for the BinaryAge Total Finder online store [1]. These codes seem to be in the format THANKSXXXX, where X is a random number/letter.
It generates a set of possible codes and then queries the website for each one of those codes. When it finds a correct coupon code permutation it outputs the code to the screen and writes it to a file. (Presumably so that the coupon can be reedemed for a free, illicit, copy of the program)
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This does not look legit. There are 175,760 possible permutations of coupon codes, which looks to me they are trying to brute-force which coupon codes work. I'm not downloading a copy.
It generates a set of possible codes and then queries the website for each one of those codes. When it finds a correct coupon code permutation it outputs the code to the screen and writes it to a file. (Presumably so that the coupon can be reedemed for a free, illicit, copy of the program)
[1] http://sites.fastspring.com/binaryage/product/totalfinderfre...
First, big thanks to some HN guys to ping me so early. I had to shut down my coupon-based links for the time being.
Anyways I should thank those hackers, it looks someone did a promo action to my software here on HN ;-)