Possible hacker
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There’s a person who made a game that tries to get your location.
This is the game:
https://play.creaticode.com/projects/68dfd705b8fda4381ff74086
This is a comment that peaked my interest that I think @info-creaticode will find interesting.
“Basically, they create a block that does something like this, // This block will get the user’s current latitude and longitude // and then fetch detailed geo information, storing it in ‘myGeoData’ table. get geo info for latitude latitude longitude longitude and write into table myGeoData // After this block runs, your ‘myGeoData’ table will be filled //with properties like ‘country’, ‘city’, ‘state’, etc., and their values. You can find this, by inspecting the code and finding the blocks, those are the blocks trying to obtain your location.”
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Geo info is a useful tool used by many apps, such as Google Maps or Uber. So getting the user’s location info itself is not a malicious behavior.
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@info-creaticode Yes, but I have actually created a test (this is privated) that can return stats like this
It was just a test, and isn’t actually malicious, but this could possibly be expanded
(t button is pressed after second run)
(It can also send txt files into your computer)
(Note, the first two questions were for show, and didn’t actually do anything to your computer)
I don’t know if this could be potentially threatening, but this was only a test and I’m not sure if it can be used further than this.
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@tao it is getting our info, I just copy and pasted the longitude and lagitude (I probably spelt that wrong) and put it into Google. it then gave me the exact town I live in, here’s a photo without me doxxing myself:
