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Hello @harryfrey; first, thank you for the awesome documentation and rundown of this project!

While I'm a huge advocate for free information, open source & hacking, I'm also of the opinion that there is a quiet war going on. This war is not a war of fought over territory with blood — this is a war fought for capital, with ideas, where the truly innovative reign supreme.

There are three sides to this war: First, there's your average "victim" (read "non-techy"), who wants absolutely no part of it, and is likely not even aware that it's going on. Then you have "the scammers" which are always looking for new, better and, more sophisticated weapons; always in an effort to scam more victims, more effectively. And then lastly, there are people like you, me and, Jim Browning; doing what little we can to disrupt these efforts, and to educate people; let's call us "the good guys".

This app, while not a "technological marvel", does carry with it some unique ideas, which other scammers are bound to pick up on — and you're making it really easy for them.

You've provided them with:

• The decompiled source
• Details on how the app works
• A rundown of the technologies used

While I'm not going to go into great details of how exactly the app works (for obvious reasons); I am going to say this; this app (as a scamming tool), is pretty much diabolically perfect.

While I absolutely respect your freedom to post and document this particular piece of software here on GitHub, I also felt an urge to tell you that, in an effort to get to know this software, its creator, and how these scammers operate; you might, in reality, actually be helping them.

Thank you for reading,
Rasmus

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