Architecture Digest
Feb 19, 2022 · Information Security
Case Study: Illegal Web Crawling and Criminal Conviction in China
This article recounts how a corporate web‑crawling tool designed to automate housing‑loan data collection overloaded a municipal residence‑permit system, triggered a large‑scale denial‑of‑service attack, and led to the CTO and programmer being prosecuted for damaging a computer information system.
computer crimecyberlawdata scraping
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