I work there. The claims made in this article are just blatantly false, and so obviously so to any employee I'm not sure how this hasn't been thrown out.

I agree, it should be rediculously easy to demo it's real e2e capabilities. to everyones benefit

Found it (with the help of AI, naturally). Looks like "Wizard 2.0" by Scott Meyer.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18616975-off-to-be-the-w...

You clearly don't work in a legacy codebase

On Whatsapp web you can now log in with your phone number via a 2fac text, no camera required.

That's good to know, but you still need a smartphone to handle the connection. Having a dumb phone wouldn't work, if I properly understand how this works.

Just checked his LinkedIn and yes, literally lol

Oh wow, I didn’t even snoop, just a guess.

As a self taught programmer who never got farther than algebra, this looks awesome to me and I may be that small target audience haha.

What happened in the last 6mo to change your mind?

probably the explosion of GPT and all things AI related, esp. their influence on online activities

If it becomes this easy to block traffic couldn't malicious applications really mess up a user by spamming out reject packets for common IP?

I think it would have to be something like "Block traffic from <offending IP> intended for <my IP>. <TTL>. <Cryptographic signature verifying that I control my IP>."

The intermediate routers can send back a confirmation code, and you must send a new reject packet with this code to confirm the ban.

Not sure how new this is but very cool that users can host a node simply by toggling an iframe or installing a browser extension. I wonder if these methods have much lower bandwidth limitations than the CLI version