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what a world, where you can proudly announce you tricked million of people into sharing their private information without any consequences

EDIT: i should believe where he said he didn't do it, not whee he said he did it



    > As many of you may have suspected, this post is not entirely truthful. I have not released this fitness app onto the Play Store, nor have I collected millions of master tokens. Thanks to this post for inspiration. But yes, these methods do work. I absolutely could release such an app, and so could anyone else (and maybe they have).


Clearly you haven't actually read the article. They have the proof of concept, but never actually released it to the public as an app.


You didn't read the article did you? He explicitly states that he did not do that, but that is is possible.


I like that you don't blame the lie in the headline.


I wouldn't either, since people aren't expected to enter the discussion based on a cursory reading of just the headline. At least not when they think they discuss the article (of which they only know the headline) -- it's still OK if they jump in to discuss other comments.




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