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Archive for March 4th, 2025

Reminder to self: re-check the Dotpe API Security Breach — bool.dev

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/04

Still public merchant information

Still public merchant information

It looks like some store and merchang APIs were not protected back when [Wayback/Archive] Dotpe API Security Breach — bool.dev was published.

Reminder to self: check their status now as I can’t believe their “human error” got fixed properly.

History (reverse chronological order):

  1. [Wayback/Archive] How DotPe’s ‘Human Error’ Exposed Confidential Customer API Data
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Deedy on X: “Today, Google-backed DotPe locked down their APIs by rate-limiting by IP on /external/merchant and blocking others. They sent a legal notice to the author before fixing it and haven’t publicly acknowledged the issue at all. Companies must be held accountable for poor security.…”

    [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON: [Wayback/Archive] GYSlTthakAEoojp.png:orig (2346×1838)

  3. Now protected private API

    Now protected private API

    [Wayback/Archive] Deedy on X: “6 hours later, the API is still very much public! …”

    [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON: [Wayback/Archive] GYK38dXbkAEEEs_.jpg:orig (1358×1798)

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Infosec (Information Security), Internet protocol suite, REST, Software Development, TCP, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/04

In the past, the Google Hangouts desktop app on Windows would integrate with the system “tray” (actually the notification area) and show you missed chats and calls.

The [Wayback/Archive] Google Chat desktop app does not. It shows missed messages only as a number on the taskbar icon. Even worse: when you close the Window, the taskbar application icon does not show that number any more.

The odd thing is that the Google Duo desktop app does stay active and shows a notification popup on incoming calls. The Google Chat desktop app does not.

So I wanted to restart the Google Chat desktop app automatically when the Window was closed. But there is a catch:

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Posted in .NET, C#, CommandLine, Delphi, Development, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »