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catsma21··on Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
thinking of youtube.com/watch?v=NdJ_y1c_j_I ?
catsma21··on We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance
mmph..furger
catsma21··on Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems
because the app store needs to build hardware cartridges....
catsma21··on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
there's more boards than just /b/
catsma21··on How well does the money laundering control system work?
Fast-food restaurant chain
catsma21··on The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]
https://i.redd.it/zj0csp06b4sd1.png
catsma21··on The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]
the salt for the passwords in the bitly breach isn't known, and the few plaintexts available were lost to time
catsma21··on Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy
nobody would be able to see what you bought with the coins, only that you sent them to steam
catsma21··on It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44880393
catsma21··on The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report
disagree. more marketshare does not mean juicier targets, which, in this case, would be tor users. in addition, you don't buy an exploit to use it en masse, that would get it burned really quickly
catsma21··on Windows XP Professional
i'd use microxp (not this, but similar) to read visual novels on my android pohne
catsma21··on Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?
i'd skip the dealership and go straight to the warehouse, if it was possible. (sideloading)
catsma21··on Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?
that's the issue! it should not be apple's phone! i paid for the hardware and current version of the software - anything more should be provided to me out of their goodwill, not because it is their device.
catsma21··on Attacking My Landlord's Boiler
yeah i put mine in the freezer
catsma21··on Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant
> its a bank transfer

why can't we just use qr codes with ibans in that case?

catsma21··on Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
NOT the same malware template. article only details how "This first repo I found" works, not all of them. look at how his github searching script works in "Scraping Github" - there is no way to determine what malware is in the repo, only that it is doing keyword stuffing.
catsma21··on Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
the article details how github is spammed by multiple people who read one guide. not every single one of the 1000 repos is THE SAME breed of malware. some overlap, maybe. but some is c#, some is rust, some is python. out of those that are python, some are obfuscated with this love/trust/joy obfuscator, some use pyarmor, some are compiled with nuitka. no, the guide does not instruct you which malware strain to use, only how to game github for traffic.

if it was that simple it would be a solved problem. i encourage you to give it a shot

catsma21··on Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
yes, they identified spammy repos. you'd also need to identify which repos belong to which spammer groups, it's not just one person doing this (as mentioned in the article) -> they don't use the same malware. saying "sent to some discord server" is like saying "playing games on my nintendo". the malware is also obfuscated (as mentioned in the article) which makes identifying the home server harder with static analysis.

why don't we just send bad people to jail?

catsma21··on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
for example - app that downloaded entered urls, something even simpler than a browser, hit with copyright takedown in 2023: https://torrentfreak.com/google-bans-downloader-app-tv-outfi...
catsma21··on Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
i did, in fact, read the article. you said "a simple script to download these repos". the variety of malware would make the script not so simple, and not so effective.
catsma21··on Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
some brands put cocaine in soda, let's ban soda altogether
catsma21··on Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
> extract the Discord webhook links

there's a large variety of malware, they don't all phone home the same way and they don't all phone home to discord

catsma21··on I made $100K from a dick joke
you've got to have the eye of a hawk to achieve something like this
catsma21··on IMG_0416
because the extensions are already different. jpg and mp4
catsma21··on Please do not write below the line
you mean the zendesk ## Please do not write below this line ##?
catsma21··on Show HN: I'm 17 and built a startup to find or sell parking spots
what's stopping people from selling spots that aren't theirs or don't exixst