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Jonathan's Card 2.0
- Tichy 15y agoIf they don't have an API, why does it say "Opps! Look's like I'm Empty!" on the web site? If they show the current balance there, they have an API.
- terinjokes 15y agoIt might just say "there's money", not an exact figure like the first card… Who knows, I haven't actually seen the page with the card having any cash on it
- chromedude 15y agoIt seems like the owner manually updates the page.
- gojomo 15y agoEr, as far as I can tell: • this isn't associated with Jonathan but uses his name • this isn't associated with Starbucks but uses their logo • it's already empty • there's no details to suggest that the previous transfer-balance vulnerability has been closed – only that it's now harder to optimize the attack by knowing when the active card has a fat balance • the usable card number will change regularly so as to confuse both attackers and users, and putting primarily the site maintainer in full control of all monies deposited What is this supposed to achieve? Are you really Sam Odio trying to prove another point?
- insomnie 15y agoMaybe the point is to simply continue something great. And prevent people like Sam sitting at starbucks with his laptop playing songs every time the card reached a high balance.
- jrockway 15y agothis isn't associated with Jonathan but uses his name My name is Jonathan and I give this guy permission to use it. If you don't want someone to name their knock-off after your product, maybe don't name it after a common first name :)
- dregger 15y agoBy your logic, I should be able to make my own Craig's List.
- gregschlom 15y agoAnd I guess that's exactly why trademarks were invented.
- jrockway 15y agoThe popular site is called Craigslist, one word. If he had called it Craig's List, then yes, you would be able to make your own. It's your given name and a common English word. Not trademarkable. See also: Windows.
- gojomo 15y agoIt is not true that you have to combine things as a novel compound word (as with 'craigslist' and many other tech firms) in order to obtain trademark protection. Common names and plain words/phrases can be protected too, within a well-identified field of use, by either formal registration or force-of-use-over-time. "Craig's List", in the field of an online listings site and community, is just as protectable as the smushed-together version. And, by risk of confusion with 'craigslist', the two-word version is now just as excluded from others' use as if 'craigslist' itself were named "Craig's List". Even if your name is 'McDonald', you won't be able to open a "McDonald's" hamburger chain. If you wanted to sell cash registers worldwide, you couldn't start an "International Business Machines". You couldn't even get away with "Jonathan's International Business Machines".
- jrockway 15y ago
- NathanKP 15y agoSo as a test I donated $10 to the card: http://i.imgur.com/2p3gK.png http://i.imgur.com/2p3gK.png And the balance still shows as empty. It's probably a scam. (Or someone has already found a way to siphon the money off immediately.) I don't care personally, its just $10 for me, but I thought you all might like to know the results I got. Edit: Never mind, it just took about 10 minutes for the main page to update. Here's to the good people and coffee drinkers of the world. ;)
- radicalbyte 15y agoOh look, it's a cheap marketing trick. Ad. Blocked.
- jmtame 15y agoI can confirm this works, just grabbed a coffee. I'll donate $10 when I get back home. Edit: donated using my iPhone. Neat project, great hack.
- insomnie 15y agoI can confirm this works. Just bought a latte!
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- gsivil 15y agometa: I already miss the days that we were grilling AirBnB or even the bitcoin days.
- _rs 15y agoAny idea how they're changing the number? Sounds like it'd have to be a manual process rather than something they could automate.
- aforty 15y agoJonathan 1.0 automated it, why couldn't they? To curb abuse they are probably just not polling/updating as often. Who knows.
- sunsu 15y agoIt's my understanding that in 1.0, the card barcode/number never changed, so it couldn't have been automated. Someone correct me if I misunderstood.
- aforty 15y agoYes you're right, that part is probably manual. I misunderstood the question, I thought he meant the amount shown from the card. My mistake.
- aforty 15y agoGot myself a caramel macchiato. Works and I'll definitely donate later. Hopefully this lasts and doesn't get abused.
- ookblah 15y agoSomeone should create a jonathan's card aggregator of all sites attempting to do this. Yeahyuh.
- dsmith_hacker 15y agoJust used it in the W Seattle area... worked. I will put $10 on it next Friday (if it lasts that long).
- chrischen 15y ago"My guess is that Jonathan made a big mistake by releasing API to keep track of cards balance." Er... Wasn't the API part of the experiment? It wasn't really a mistake then if the experiment was undefined.
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- insomnie 15y agoPut $10 on it this morning. Enjoy.
- dsmith_hacker 15y agoThank you, you made my day! Tall mocha :) I just hope it's still around by Friday so I can put some money on it.
- insomnie 15y agoYour welcome. Hope this keeps going as well.
- warrantsuspect 15y agoI got a coffee earlier. Says total amount donated $130. Not bad for one day. Will put some money on it later.
- insomnie 15y agoAdded more money to it. Enjoy, and give back.