Today a stranger asked me for directions. I would not mention his race to mislead you. I was in the industrial area of an Italian city, away from the center.

He asked me where is the station. I thought he was looking for bus to go to the railway station, then I explained to him the nearest bus route. However he then showed me his WhatsApp messages, somebody sent him a location pin.

He said it's a Chinese grocery store (I am ethnic Chinese, which is easy to tell). I looked at it and found that he does have Google Maps installed. What's even more strange is that this location is 45 km away. He then asked me if I can take a ride to his car so I can guide.

All his context don't make sense to me, not to mention that I was walking alone in a distant area. Even in broad daylight, I was fully alerted. I rejected him firmly and he said thanks then left.

What could possibly be the situation? And his motivation? Is this a known scam?

I don't think anyone would kidnap me, dai

Having trouble sleeping so write random notes: observations from disassembly that might be related to iOS 27 performance boost

https://codecolor.ist/posts/2026-06-15-ios27-reworked-stub-islands/

IDA 9.4 dyld_shared_cache loader is impressive! 10/10 recommended.

Only one small issue: iOS 27 beta cache changed __objc_stubs trampoline again, to shrink from 6 instructions to only 3, and removed the section entirely. So IDA only recognized them in "GAP" without proper name