Cautionary Tale: Don't **** up your scripts ;_;

That got me thinking about how hard it would be to brute force a giveaway.

• There are 916,132,832 possible giveaway url's.
• You can create a giveaway for up to a month and last month there were 100,683 giveaways created.
• I think that means that on average you would find one active giveaway url for every 9100 url's that you tried.
• Considering only 9.4% of all giveaways last month were invite only, you would on average have to go through 96,800 url's to find 1 invite only giveaway.

And then considering the site will temporarily IP block you for too many invalid url's, I see it very unlikely that anyone will have much luck with brute forcing.

I am certainly no math expert, so I'm not sure if all the math or the logic is correct on this.

Edit: It also looks like if we stayed at the current rate of giveaways being created, there will be enough unique giveaway url's to create giveaways for another 756 years :)

doesn't matter, the ga will be deleted since the entry was invalid.

Data loss can teach so many things. Like, for example, keeping a backup, a shadow backup and a tetriary backup of all the documents one makes. I love my sync software. ♥

Didn't someone recently make a 500 GA train? Wonder how they did that ;_;