Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
rozodru@lemmy.world 14 hours agoyou’re right as far it’s intentions go. I honestly couldn’t give a rats ass about what it intended to do what I have a MASSIVE issue with is that it did the EXACT opposite of what it “intended to do.”
It didn’t provide Women with a “safe space” because women’s government issued IDs and their personal selfies were, quite literally, OUT IN THE OPEN. It opened Women who used the app to way more harm.
Their database, and i’m being extremely generous when I call it that, wasn’t even password protected. not even a simple plain text password like “password123” there was NO password. at all. period. All I would have had to do was simply see where the app sent the scanned ID’s, open a terminal, SSH into it WITHOUT A PASSWORD OR KEY, and then I now have access to the IDs of over 13,000 Women. Hell I probably wouldn’t have even had to SSH into it, probably could have opened the damn thing from a web browser.
So when the media is saying 4chan “leaked” this stuff again they’re being generous. It’s like if you were walking down the street that Tea lived on and you noticed they left their door wide open so you decided to peak your head inside and while peaking your head in you noticed a box right by the door that had thousands of IDs in it so you picked up the box and walked out. Chances are other people got to this box before 4chan did, many people probably did, it’s just that 4chan were the only ones to say “Hey I found this house with a wide open door and decided to pick up this box with all these IDs in it, neat huh?”
VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
None of this is what I am discussing. I’m talking about the people in the thread who are saying that these people deserved this.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Are you the only one allowed to bring up points of conversation? Let them say their part
VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Sorry if that came off the wrong way. I more so meant it to point out what I intended in case there was a misunderstanding.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Why not address them directly?