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Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.
Tim Shmykov
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Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
While looking through the articles on a "social engineering" themed forum I discovered a relatively new scam scheme that shocked me. People create thousands of GitHub repositories with all sorts of things - from Roblox and Fortnite mods to "cracked" FL Studio and Photoshop. As soon as you download and
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Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results
Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady" apps and share the results.
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Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
Why I decided to ditch Cursor and switch to running Claude Code in an isolated environment + diy guide!