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MostlyJustBored’s account is 3 weeks old with no history. We should take whatever they say with a grain of salt.

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Or we could take a look at the javascript ourselves, like they say to do?

Everyone’s asking for a writeup, but like… there’s not any other JS programmers who could take a look and verify?

Nobody wants to trust this guy, but also nobody wants to do the legwork to verify it.

They want the writeup, because the claims are too vague to falsify.

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Most JS shipping on the web is minified, with variables renamed to random names, you can’t just open it and search for maliciousFunction.

Also their claim of Twitch doing network sniffing in a browser should be impossible unless Twitch has found and is actively exploiting a security flaw in modern web browsers.

Technically, twitch could sniff all the traffic exchanged with their user. It would be pointless as they already know the content of the transmission, though

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Yeah, that’s why I asked in the first place. I’m zero interested in the credibility of that person. Just somebody check if it’s factual. I’m not a Javascript-person but I bet there are debugging-tools and de-minifiers available. Or just someone press Ctrl+Shift+I and look at the inspector.

Edit: Nevermind. Maybe the credibility of an account sometimes is enough.

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