On: The New York Times uses WebRTC to gather local IP addresses

[iooi]

How do you use it for fraud detection? What does it tell you/what are you looking for?

[joshmn → iooi]

Financial card fraud; Most of the time someone just hops on a SOCKS4/SOCKS5 proxy, doesn't have a VPN behind that. We can grab the user's IP.

Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8949953

[x0 → joshmn]

That's beautiful. One of my passions in life is seeing carders get caught.

[joshmn → x0]

I was one in a former life. Now I use my insights to help.

You'd be sickened and surprised by how many startups overlook handling chargebacks.