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I've been analyzing the leaked source code of GTA V to see how the matchmaking works and learn more about game servers. I decided to create a Wiki on GitHub to publish my learnings with the hope of others to join if they interested.

Be aware that everything may not be fully correct, codebase is huge and I'm not a C++programmer which makes the analysis quite tricky.

PhilDunphy23on A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices

I always asked myself this question: does this kind of attacks try to authenticate to every single IP address (for loop, excluding ranges from Google, Microsoft, Apple...) or does it penetrate the victim network first by executing some random file from the internet that the victim downloaded?

PhilDunphy23on Show HN: A Better Cookie Banner

This is the kind of thing I see with my ad blocker and I press “save preferences” anyways because I don’t want to deal with more than one click.

PhilDunphy23on JQuery 3.4.0 Released

It’s the new snippet for analytics.

PhilDunphy23on JQuery 3.4.0 Released

https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js

Search “jQuery” in there, first result will be the copyright comment plus the version.

PhilDunphy23on JQuery 3.4.0 Released

If you have jQuery on your website alongside Google Analytics, you’re loading two jQuery libraries without you knowing due to Google using it too on their analytics script.

PhilDunphy23on Is service worker ready?

I dislike a few things from it:

- Can't tell when the request has been made by the user or the service worker on the server logs.

- Not being able to ignore certain parameters from the search part of the URL (all or none).

Excluding these two issues, it does its thing pretty well.