stephen.mason.jones

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3. What's the deal with the Khan Academy API?

As far as I know, most people (at least I did) learned about the API from others who reverse-engineered it. KA doesn't have formal documentation for it, so anything posted is unofficial and subject...

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3. Accessing External API

That and I think you can also load javascript from https://cdnjs.com, but as far as I know there aren't any APIs outside of KA's you can access.

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3. Are collaboration bots allowed on Khan Academy?

Oops, that's a fresh thread. I just ran a command in the thread, and it showed up even well logged out.

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3. KACP Revival Proposals

For C and other compiled languages, it would be cool to do something with web assembly. One possibility is to run a program, it would compile on khan academy's servers, and run in the browser. Comp...

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3. Are collaboration bots allowed on Khan Academy?

Thank you for the quick reply -- I'll implement that now :) Based on your experience, would you say anything above 1:10 flags:votes would be suspicious, or should I target something lower/higher? A...

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3. Are collaboration bots allowed on Khan Academy?

One additional question, in regards to other people creating inappropriate programs through the bot, what would be a reasonable enforcement strategy? For example, if a project was shadowbanned by t...

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3. Bookmarklets on KA

Oh! And I guess the most obvious: make sure that the bookmarklet was made by a trustworthy person (an anonymous person posting a bookmarklet is very suspicious).

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3. Lost programs

I was also just thinking, see if you can snag the program ID from your browsing history. Otherwise it might be impossible for the devs to find the program...

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3. Lost programs

But do any of you still have the bookmarklet bookmarked? That's what most likely contains the malicious code, the program was probably more of the method of delivery.

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3. Lost programs

Did it have a bookmarklet? @Quinn Hardbrook said that he found a bookmarklet that dad code to delete all projects. If you did, would you mind posting what code it contained?