Comment by direwolf20
4 hours ago
They make credit cards. Obviously they're not real cards but what sort of financial wizardry is required to make that possible? And given it's vibecoded that means Claude knows how to make fake credit cards now?
4 hours ago
They make credit cards. Obviously they're not real cards but what sort of financial wizardry is required to make that possible? And given it's vibecoded that means Claude knows how to make fake credit cards now?
>Claude knows how to make fake credit cards now
If by "fake" you mean ones that pass number validation on web sites, that's easy. I wrote python code to check and generate valid numbers back in the '90s; it's a simple, well known check digit algorithm appended at the end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm.
Anytime a company pisses me off I set up a while loop to generate Luhn-compliant 16-digit numbers and spam them on every html form on the site.
PCI audits are fun for everyone
No I mean ones that are actually connected to Visa's network and you get an API call from Visa when someone uses them.
They’re real virtual cards actually. Source: I added the feature
This feature was removed at some point and I guess added back? What happened there? It's my fav feature :).
Also what service do you use to mint endless virtual cc numbers?
The first version used a provider that started rate-limiting us pretty heavily. It meant a pretty crappy experience for folks creating the Canarytoken. We decided to pause and look for alternatives.
We’re using Airwallex now. They’ve been great.
You can read more about the implementation in our blogpost: https://blog.thinkst.com/2024/12/its-baaack-credit-card-cana...
> given it's vibecoded
Why is this a given? This service has been around for longer than LLMs have been a thing.
Vibecoding has seriously eroding the trust we have in public software. Hopefully there's some of badge projects can use to clarify how much Ai was in charge of it.
- No LLMs
- LLMs as tools
- LLMs decided some things
- YOLO vibecoded
That would require honesty and trust, which are two things that most online projects could only dream of having
this is absolutely not a given, i've been using canarytokens for years!
blog posts date back to at least 2015: https://leonjza.github.io/blog/2015/09/10/canarytokens---the...
There are many, many services for programmatically issuing credit cards that you can control from code. For example: https://stripe.com/issuing
> given it's vibecoded
I've been using it since 2015