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Scam pulled off in Indian hackathon, won $85k just by rebranding Brave Browser

https://twitter.com/DotSlashTX/status/1903566682108633120

by greatgib • 1 year ago

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greatgib• 1 year ago

What I found the most funny is the official executable to be downloaded from the official website that is named:

ping_installer (1).exe

You clearly know that someone downloaded a file (having already a copy) and just uploaded that directly to the official website.

InkCanon• 1 year ago

One of the more risible parts of this fiasco is that they publicly cloned Brave, then publicly committed all the changes they made. Here's a commit stripping the Brave logo from some poster and changing the color template.

https://github.com/ping-browser/ping-core/commit/6f1a6fb9ddf...

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