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If it increases the attack surface at all, it makes it easier. Being that this site facilitates monetary transactions, I would hope they would be trying to limit their attack surface in any way possible.

I think the real point here is that there are more secure solutions. Saying that it's not all that less secure isn't a great argument.

You list hyperdimensional hashing as one of the early methods that you tried without success. While only good for point-to-point distance comparison in its simplest application, it seems that geohashes meet the scalar/vector problem that you describe. Do you have any experience with geohashes, and if so, what's your opinion of them?

How do you figure that web development is blue-collar work? Even for hyperbole, this is quite a stretch. Whatever your intent was, it just comes off as elitist.

Whatsapp Web 12 years ago

Heck of a roll-out, guys.

  - only works on one browser
  - requires interop with the mobile app
  - supporting mobile app version on Android only
  - supporting mobile app version not universally available on Android, presumably because of Google Play registry population or something.

The title should actually be "How I trick all of you into reading this story". I'm probably not alone in hoping that this story contained some slick hack.

As the complexity/variability of a product's functionality grows, a product team's ability to ensure quality across all functionality diminishes.

As a consumer of many kinds of things, I almost always gravitate toward the offering that is most simple/focused in its purpose.