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Re:How to find your Uber passenger rating by eiopa on Sunday July 27, 2014 @11:37PM (#8095038)
If you're curious, I put together a Python library for that: https://github.com/tals/uber.py

Some of this is remainders from when they just had consultants working on this. Look at hash_password() at client.py :)

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Re:How to find your Uber passenger rating by nitrogen on Monday July 28, 2014 @01:13AM (#8095285)
Look at hash_password() at client.py :)

That's so... what? Is the API not https? If they wanted to avoid even knowing the password, then why not use something standard like SRP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...)?

That animated GIF with the CLI session is very cool, by the way.

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Re:How to find your Uber passenger rating by skeletonjelly on Monday July 28, 2014 @01:30AM (#8095341)
Deep link: https://github.com/tals/uber.py/blob/master/uber/client.py#L...
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Re:How to find your Uber passenger rating by ZoFreX on Monday July 28, 2014 @05:51AM (#8095892)
Permalink: https://github.com/tals/uber.py/blob/fee0ede7b0168200faa218f... (press 'y' while on a page to get the permalink)

Addendum: This is awful! (Uber's hashing, not the github code in question)

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Re:How to find your Uber passenger rating by Fragment on Monday July 28, 2014 @04:27AM (#8095701)
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8046710

(Well, it's not really relevant but you reminded me of it ^_^)

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Re:How to find your Uber passenger rating by skeletonjelly on Monday July 28, 2014 @10:45PM (#8100459)
Ah awesome thanks! Didn't cross my mind to link to the commit's line number. Still, have to agree with some commenters about having the link go to it by default.
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Re:How to find your Uber passenger rating by StavrosK on Monday July 28, 2014 @07:16AM (#8096081)
This has so many MD5s, it must be ultra secure!
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Re:How to find your Uber passenger rating by madeofpalk on Sunday July 27, 2014 @11:48PM (#8095068)
Oh that's fantastic! I'm definitely very interested in giving that a try!
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