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Corsair iCUE is a Spyware

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Privacy Policy

Personal information that Corsair collects: Name, email, address, city, state and zip code, country, phone number, details of purchase(s), credit card information, […] IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser, location and other technical information […], how your device has interacted with our website, pages accessed and links clicked.

Installation

So I spinned up my best Windows Virtual Machine and installed mitmproxy and iCUE. In the picture below you can see all the requests the installer made. The installer shows a YouTube video but I removed thoses requests since it’s not the topic here.

Reverse engineering a mobile game API

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

How does this game work…

I was playing Crypto Idle Miner, a mobile game about crypto currencies, when this question went through my mind. And I think I’m not the only one who has thought of this using an app.

It’s time to get my hands dirty.

Yes but how

That’s a good question. How on earth can I spy on this bad boy… I’m not on a web browser so no “Inspect Element”.

Stalking your Discord friends

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Because I love statistics I made a thing that makes graphs of when people are online on Discord and what they are doing. It sounds kinda creepy and in fact it is (totally inspired by this).

Discord status

Everyone knows these little colorful dots, they exist in almost every chat application. But how exactly does it work on Discord?

To find out, there is only one solution, to go deep into Discord’s code. And to do that, just press F12 or CTRL+SHIFT+I in a browser or in the Discord client (since it uses Electron).