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You don't have to do that? I touched upon it in the first section of the post. All you need is a valid phone number, which you can use throwaway trial SIM cards for.
> Our first hurdle is the account creation setup Account creation requires biometric face-scan.
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> Our first hurdle is the account creation setup Account creation requires biometric face-scan.
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https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/SwipeHelper/search?q=hinge+sel...
Maybe you're getting lucky and not tickling their risk-based nonsense, but now that this article has been posted they'll certainly crank that knob up to 11.
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Tons of posts on Reddit disagree with you: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/SwipeHelper/search?q=hinge+sel... Maybe you're getting lucky and not tickling their risk-based nonsense, but now that this article has been posted they'll certainly crank that knob up to 11.
You probably don't use Hinge. The verification is not necessary at all. It's merely used to "verify" your identity to other users. It has no bearing on what I cover in the post.
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Apparently I have. Is this particular dating app particularly noteworthy?
I envy the fact you had to google it
So unless the default assumption is that everyone on HN is dating (I'm married) I genuinely don't understand why it's weird to not have heard of some random ass dating app
speaking of command and control servers, the best one you can get at the moment is to just to use crypto currencies, plenty of available nodes to auto discover or just rely on explorers to query your own wallet, deposit address can encode quite a bit of information since it's a pretty long address and definitely has enough bytes to encode commands
I want to thank you and the other user (hobofan) for pointing out the use of crypto currencies as C2s. I do bioinformatics for a living, not infosec, so that's another fun little rabbit hole for me to go on...
I found it when I realized that nano had 0 fees and I realized that by using a nano vanity address generator, I can embed data into a series of transactions and then basically embed data into the chain (for free) since there is 0 gas fees
Now I created it as a way of getting timestamps of any data onto the chain but you can embed any information and create c2c's on top of that
There is also a way that I vibe coded once to embed data directly into the vanity address and so you can lose 10^-32 nano or basically negligble which is more efficient as well
If you have any questions, I'd love to answer (also even if I like the tech, I think that crypto's fundamentally really really volatile and I prefer things like index funds being honest)
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In 2025/2026 it’s not hard to generate fake videos that bypass these security gates.
They don't let you upload facefusion videos. The video has to come from the front-facing camera on a phone. There is an extremely profitable company (whose data hoard keeps geting hacked but why should they care?) built around this: https://www.au10tix.com/ Most apps use device attestation (derived from secure boot) to make sure the video stream is really coming from a front-facing camera on a physical device. If Hin…
Fundamentally no amount of front facing camera on a physical device or other shenanigan a company might do can really do anything about it?