How One User Farmed $1,900 in AI Free-Trial Credits With 9 Apple Private Relay IDs — And the Atomic Redis Lua + Fingerprint Architecture That Stops It
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Every week, another AI wrapper or GPU-backed SaaS founder wakes up to the same nightmare: $1,500 to $3,000 in Replicate/Flux GPU runs or OpenAI/Anthropic token spend drained overnight by a single free-trial user. In a recent real-world post-mortem, a single attacker bypassed standard rate-limiting…
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