How I found a $5,000 Google Maps XSS (by fiddling with Protobuf)A few months ago, I used Google Maps. Or maybe Google Street View, I love Street View, it’s like a retrofuturistic way to teleport. Routinely, I looked at the address bar. Since sometime in 2014, parameters are not the mere query string they used to be. Instead, it’s a weird mash of alphanumeric characters separated by exclamation points. It’s abstruse, it has no public documentation whatsoever, i
