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> To narrow down the app, we decided to observe connections to the image from clients (phones) to our servers. We did this by opening the popular apps one-by-one and noting down the time. After doing this for all the apps, we then ran this query in Hive: SELECT * FROM wmf.webrequest WHERE year=2021 AND month=2 AND day=9 AND parse_media_file_url(uri_path).base_name='/wikipedia/commons/1/16/AsterNovi-belgii-flower-1mb.…
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Even worse: You might be seen as an easy way to Goatse people. Just give the yahoos the URL of an image you're rewriting to be the infamous gape. The traffic would only grow once you came to be known for Goatse as a Service.
> Goatse as a Service (YC S21)
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> Goatse as a Service (YC S21)
Implemented via several dozen geographically distributed 1U servers with 10 or 100GbE network interfaces, and anycast DNS. You could do it pretty much the same as anycast DNS recursive resolvers, but all sharing the same hostname, IP and TLS keys.
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No, you can selectively decrypt HTTPS requests for only some domains, and act as passthrough for others.
Nope. Starting from Android 10, unless an app has explicitly allowed user certificates (and no-one reasonably does, it's all behind a flag), you will not be able to MITM it. You may inject your certificates as much as you want. The only option is to have a device on which you have root access, which can push system certificates with adb. This pretty much only means the android emulator these days.
This seems interesting from a legal point of view as well: Is an app downloading, but never displaying, creative commons content infringing on copyright (by not showing correct attribution and violating the CC terms)? Besides copyright, could this be considered theft of service?
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Implemented via several dozen geographically distributed 1U servers with 10 or 100GbE network interfaces, and anycast DNS. You could do it pretty much the same as anycast DNS recursive resolvers, but all sharing the same hostname, IP and TLS keys.
We need goatse anycast address
If only for the outrageous user agent.
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It's usually not a good idea to explain a joke, and I'm not the GP so I'm not sure that's what they meant, but "plant" has multiple meanings, and I suspect they are referring to meanings 3 to 5 from this list: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/americ... . Basically, you were asking for some kind of elaborate meaning to a random image downloaded by a random app, and they provided an elaborate consp…
Thanks, I appreciate your effort but there really isn't any need to explain this to me. I understood the parent comment this way too (i.e. as a snide remark trying way too hard to be funny in the worst possible, low effort, Reddit kind of way). It's just that since it's rare to see this kind of response here, I was wondering if the author was trying to make any finer point, although admittedly that was unlikely to be…
What's curious is that many folks claim the subthreads of their comment as a personal fiefdom, taking umbrage at any remark they deem unworthy of the continuation, the self-appointed gatekeepers of repartee.
Specifically, though, I don't think this is a valid complaint:
> there really isn't any need to explain this to me
since it follows from:
> how does anything you wrote relate to anything I wrote?
which is, rhetorical or otherwise, and notwithstanding the pilgarlic territoriality, a clear request for an explanation, which rob74 has elegantly supplied, and to which I'd append only one additional observation, viz. that the image is a plant
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Heaven forbid someone make a joke on the internet and not take your frustrations as seriously as you seem to take yourself. To address your frustration at the analysis stopping there: What do you expect someone who is likely more versed in web dev and their unique distributed systems to do? Do you expect them to have the expertise to decompile an app from a third party, an app popular enough to cause this much traffi…
> Heaven forbid someone make a joke on the internet Jokes are funny. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 > I agree with what people have already said, but I think there's one more point to add: people usually over-estimate how funny their own comments are. We have a tendency to think, "This idea of mine is hilarious! And different! Surely this witticism is the exception." And we are usually wrong. When you h…
> To narrow down the app, we decided to observe connections to the image from clients (phones) to our servers. We did this by opening the popular apps one-by-one and noting down the time. After doing this for all the apps, we then ran this query in Hive: SELECT * FROM wmf.webrequest WHERE year=2021 AND month=2 AND day=9 AND parse_media_file_url(uri_path).base_name='/wikipedia/commons/1/16/AsterNovi-belgii-flower-1mb.…
They didn't have 'the phone'. They only had traffic logs and had to find the app that matched a certain traffic pattern. And they did have 'something like ElasticSearch', it's all in the link, and even in this reply.