Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThey were looking through publicly accessible buckets on firebase. They literally did stumble upon this by accident while going through public data. Should they have disclosed it once they realized what it was instead of spreading it? Sure, morally speaking. But I don’t see how you could write a law to make this illegal without just trampling on free speech.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
That’s a weird way to say they doxxed people instead of ethically disclosing what they found. Hiding that detail is why I have a problem with defending this.
If someone steals something they didn’t know belonged to someone (say through an unlocked door), should we prosecute them? I don’t know. What did they do next after they found out they shouldn’t be there? Did they give it back and tell the building owners “hey, you have an unlocked door” or did they yell to the street “hey everyone, come get free stuff!” How did they behave once they knew they did something wrong.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
From what I have seen, they initial guys shared a link to the database, not any content. The equivalent of telling people: “Look at this unlocked door I found.” They did not “steal” anything as far as I know.
Also, the analogy doesn’t work either. What if it really was intended to be public? Making a copy is not analogous to stealing something, it’s analogous to taking a picture.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Damn, do you think this link I found that has a ton of women’s drivers licenses is supposed to be public? Better share it to 4chan. They’ll know what to do.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So it’s just about the drivers licenses? We should make a law to ban sharing drivers licenses?
What do you believe should be the law here.