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The Scammiest Scam To Yet Anonymity Scam

I'm still holding out for this being a hoax, a big joke, and that they're going to cancel the kickstarter any minute. It'd be quite the cute "lessons learned" about anonymity scams. However, I will be treating it from here on out as a genuine scam. (As of May 2nd, the kickstarter has been cancelled, after the strangest attempt to reply to this imaginable. Good riddance.)

This absolutely ridiculous thing was brought to my attention by a friend and since it was late at night I thought I must be delirious in how absurdly over the top fake it seemed. So I slept on it, woke up, and found that it had gotten a thousand dollars more funding and was every bit as flabbergasting as I thought it was.

Since I realize that not everyone has spent their entire lives studying computers – and such people are the targets of such scams –

There are three easy to make mistakes in go. I present them here in the way they are often found in the wild, not in the way that is easiest to understand.

All three of these mistakes have been made in Kubernetes code, getting past code review at least once each that I know of.

Loop variables are scoped outside the loop.

What do these lines do? Make predictions and then scroll down.

func print(pi *int) { fmt.Println(*pi) }

	/* bling.js */
	window.$ = document.querySelector.bind(document);
	window.$$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);
	Node.prototype.on = window.on = function(name, fn) { this.addEventListener(name, fn); };
	NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;
	NodeList.prototype.on = function(name, fn) { this.forEach((elem) => elem.on(name, fn)); };

	* {
	font-size: 12pt;
	font-family: monospace;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: black;
	cursor: default;
	}

	haproxy.conf
	============

	frontend spdy
	mode tcp
	bind xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443 ssl crt /etc/haproxy/ssl.pem crt /etc/haproxy/certs.d npn spdy/3.1,http/1.1 ciphers AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH:AES128+EDH:EECDH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!DES:!3DES:!RC4; no-sslv3
	option tcplog
	log global

	# route to nginx

	//==========================================
	// Working fully self-contained getting-started example for Suave Web Server scripting
	//
	// Note you don't need to have _anything_ installed before starting with this script. Nothing
	// but F# Interactive and this script.
	//
	// This script fetches the Paket.exe component which is referenced later in the script.
	// Initially the #r "paket.exe" reference is shown as unresolved. Once it has been
	// downloaded by the user (by executing the first part of the script) the reference
	// shows as resolved and can be used.

	(defn bndm [pattern string]
	"Searches for the pattern in the string using the BNDM algorithm;
	it returns a list of the indices where there is a match."
	(let [uniq-letters (set pattern)
	indexed-letters (map-indexed vector pattern)
	bitmasks (into {}
	(for [c uniq-letters]
	[c (reduce + (map (fn [[idx c']] (if (= c c') (bit-shift-left 1 idx) 0)) indexed-letters))]))]
	(loop [d 0 idx 0 acc []]
	(cond

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import sys
	import gmpy

	import curve25519

	from struct import pack
	from hashlib import sha256
	from binascii import hexlify, unhexlify

Val Packett valpackett

The Scammiest Scam To Yet Anonymity Scam

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