u/michaelnovati posted · ★ FEATURED
CODESMITH: Can you please shut down CSX? It's spewing out user data and content and hasn't been updated in years.
Codesmith's "free learning platform" that they claim can get you an "entry level job" by completing is one of the worst pieces of software I've seen in ed-tech.
For example, this URL gives the ENTIRE CONTENT IN ITS ENTIRETY away in a single click: [https://csx.codesmith.io/api/yaml/all](https://csx.codesmith.io/api/yaml/all)
This isn't a secret or a hack, it's literally just fetched when you login to load all the content and is freely available to the internet, no authentication.
Next, anyone can just grab all the user data for any user they want.
For example, this is my user data: [https://csx.codesmith.io/users/95526](https://csx.codesmith.io/users/95526) and I give you permission to open it and look at it.
DO NOT look at other users data because that can be a gray area if you scrape it, even if Codesmith doesn't have any permissions or controls on their own.
Enough is enough here, no pretending and shut it down.