Rate limit
A cap on how much one person or account can send.
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- The Pothole App That Was Fooled (Jugnupur Tales Vol 2, Ch 7)
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Related terms
- QR code swapping Physically replacing a legitimate payment code with a fraudulent one.
- Quishing Phishing carried out through a QR code instead of a link or message.
- Ransomware Software that locks or scrambles your files and demands payment to release them.
- Rate limiting Restricting how many requests a client can make in a given time, to prevent abuse or scraping.
- RBAC / ABAC Role-based and attribute-based access control, two models for deciding who's allowed to do what.
- Recruitment fraud A fake job or internship offer designed to look like a genuine hiring process.