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Breaking Math.Random to win
I was talking with MasterIO about Yuna, the Discord bot of o!rdr, when I said that I could win big money. Big money in this story means virtual currency from a Discord bot. Sadly I did not buy a house with JavaScript. He told me to “win against Math.random”. So I did what any reasonable person would do. I googled how to break Math.random. JavaScript moment Math.random() is not magic. It does not call the universe and ask it politely for a number. It is pseudo-random, which means that it uses an internal state to generate numbers that look random enough for most things. ...
Corsair iCUE is a Spyware
Privacy Policy From Corsair Privacy Policy: Personal information that Corsair collects: Name, email, address, city, state and zip code, country, phone number, details of purchase(s), credit card information, […] IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser, location and other technical information […], how your device has interacted with our website, pages accessed and links clicked. Installation So I spinned up my best Windows Virtual Machine and installed mitmproxy and iCUE. In the picture below you can see all the requests the installer made. The installer shows a YouTube video but I removed thoses requests since it’s not the topic here. ...
Reverse engineering a mobile game API
How does this game work… I was playing Crypto Idle Miner, a mobile game about crypto currencies, when this question went through my mind. And I think I’m not the only one who has thought of this using an app. It’s time to get my hands dirty. Yes but how That’s a good question. How on earth can I spy on this bad boy… I’m not on a web browser so no “Inspect Element”. ...
Stalking your Discord friends
Because I love statistics I made a thing that makes graphs of when people are online on Discord and what they are doing. It sounds kinda creepy and in fact it is (totally inspired by this). Discord status Everyone knows these little colorful dots, they exist in almost every chat application. But how exactly does it work on Discord? To find out, there is only one solution, to go deep into Discord’s code. And to do that, just press F12 or CTRL+SHIFT+I in a browser or in the Discord client (since it uses Electron). ...