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Also, re: maps, fake streets and cul-de-sacs that don't exist.

I've set a "trap" myself years ago in code in a novel solution at the time for uploading photos from iOS non-interactively after the fact. It was to support disconnected field workers taking photos from iPhones/iPads, with the payloads uploaded at a later date.

Chunked form data constructed in userland JS was the solution. Chunk separator was 17 dashes in a row (completely arbitrary), company name in 1337 speak, plus 17 more dashes.

Found a competitor that had copied the code, changing only the 1337 speak part. 17 dashes remained on each side. Helped me realize that they had unminified and indeed ripped off our R&D work.

Wonder if Copilot could be gamed the same way.



How did you manage to find that your competitor copied your code?


Javascript


Yeah. The feature set offerred by the competitor was similar to ours, and we went through the wringer building that solution, so i unminified their code and sure enough...it easn't exactly theirs.

Oh yeah and they ripped off our website too. That was the first clue haha.




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