Hacker News: catsma21

New comment by catsma21 in "Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content"

catsma21 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:01:26 +0000

thinking of youtube.com/watch?v=NdJ_y1c_j_I ?

New comment by catsma21 in "We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance"

catsma21 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:56:30 +0000

mmph..furger

New comment by catsma21 in "Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems"

catsma21 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:01:07 +0000

because the app store needs to build hardware cartridges....

New comment by catsma21 in "4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC"

catsma21 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:29:11 +0000

there's more boards than just /b/

New comment by catsma21 in "How well does the money laundering control system work?"

catsma21 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:45:44 +0000

Fast-food restaurant chain

New comment by catsma21 in "The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]"

catsma21 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:34:22 +0000

https://i.redd.it/zj0csp06b4sd1.png

New comment by catsma21 in "The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]"

catsma21 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:32:32 +0000

the salt for the passwords in the bitly breach isn't known, and the few plaintexts available were lost to time

New comment by catsma21 in "Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy"

catsma21 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:34:01 +0000

nobody would be able to see what you bought with the coins, only that you sent them to steam

New comment by catsma21 in "It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges"

catsma21 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:10:32 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44880393

New comment by catsma21 in "The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report"

catsma21 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:47:37 +0000

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

New comment by catsma21 in "Windows XP Professional"

catsma21 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:09:08 +0000

i'd use microxp (not this, but similar) to read visual novels on my android pohne

New comment by catsma21 in "Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?"

catsma21 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:47:51 +0000

i'd skip the dealership and go straight to the warehouse, if it was possible. (sideloading)

New comment by catsma21 in "Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?"

catsma21 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:47:02 +0000

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.

New comment by catsma21 in "Attacking My Landlord's Boiler"

catsma21 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:18:30 +0000

yeah i put mine in the freezer

New comment by catsma21 in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

catsma21 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:39:45 +0000

> its a bank transfer

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

New comment by catsma21 in "Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data"

catsma21 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:27:46 +0000

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.

New comment by catsma21 in "Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data"

catsma21 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:45:39 +0000

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

New comment by catsma21 in "Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data"

catsma21 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:17:21 +0000

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?

New comment by catsma21 in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"

catsma21 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:11:30 +0000

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...

New comment by catsma21 in "Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data"

catsma21 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:55:18 +0000

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.