alt Hacker NewsThey 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?
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They’re real virtual cards actually. Source: I added the feature
> given it's vibecoded
Why is this a given? This service has been around for longer than LLMs have been a thing.
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
>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.