Rise of the Hypebots: Scripting Streetwear

Presented at DEF CON 27 (2019), Aug. 10, 2019, 10 a.m. (45 minutes)

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.

Presenters:

• finalphoenix - Engineer & Hypebae
  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

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-27/dc-27-speakers.html#finalphoenix
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 27/DEF CON 27 video and slides/DEF CON 27 - finalphoenix - Rise of the Hypebots Scripting Streetwear.mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 27/DEF CON 27 video and slides/DEF CON 27 - finalphoenix - Rise of the Hypebots Scripting Streetwear.srt (subtitles)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsC4VGztDlg