Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats

Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Both the company, for failing to protect its users; and a large majority of its users, for doxxing and libel.

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  • possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not going to hold it against women for having a private group to tell on predatory dudes when this existed and nobody ever faced any consequences. What We Learned About the 70K-Person Telegram Channel on How to Rape Women

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    • mang0@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Arguing that tea was for “telling on predatory dudes” is like saying backdooring encryption is to catch people spreading CP.

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s what the creator of the site said it was for.

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    • semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is some Grade-A whataboutism right here.

      Of COURSE the people in that group chat deserve punishment, and probably the same 20 years that French(?) guy got depending on who all did what.

      Just because that happened though doesn’t excuse that this happened. The company did a horrendous thing by holding onto highly sensitive and private data it said it should have deleted, AND the userbase was absolutely vile and abusive towards men.

      All three things need to see justice brought to them, and you should not excuse one just because another happened and wasn’t dealt with properly.

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  • socialsecurity@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just another story where victims go on to become absuers it seems.

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    • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nah they were abusers all along

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• FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean, it’s on brand. The doxxing app is successfully doxxing people…

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• aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You get 89 cents in the settlement. Do you prefer to get a direct deposit or a check?

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  • zarathustra0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, they just go bankrupt.

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    • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      1 week free access to the service that did it in the first place is my favorite call action outcome.

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• HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nah, just stop using it. Sueing does nothing, it just benefits lawyers and not any of us.

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But it may hurt the creators who

    A) Made this abhorrent shit to begin with

    B) Didn’t secure a goddamn thing and lied to users about the leaked info being deleted

    so whether or not I benefit monetarily, I benefit by it being shut down and those responsible being held at least a little accountable for their various misdeeds to both their users and humanity at large. Plus that may serve as a deterrent for the next libel app that thinks they’ve reinvented facebook 1.0 (which, they might have some advice about this exact scenario, actually.)

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• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It sucks for those people, but everyone should expect anything they say online to be possibly tied back to them. Secrets and identification information don’t mix. Especially online. The good news is that there is no evidence any of it is real, anyone can lie on the site saying whatever they want, so if doxed someone can just say they were bored and wanted to fit in and see what others were discussing or such. Hopefully for them it doesn’t turn into people getting hurt for talking behind someone’s back like it often does offline.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    fuck off with that complacency

    there’s so much underlying rules for private communication between computer systems, this type of thing is pure neglect boardering on international.

    there’s no reason to think everything online should be open and available. we should all be allowed to be in private spaces, especially if it’s advertised as a private space

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are no private spaces online, your privacy is at the whim of whoever owns the servers and whatever government controls them.

      Unless you’re using end to end encrypted communication with people you know and trust you should assume that everything you do online has your actual name and face attached to it.

      I do agree that it sucks.

      There should be laws, with criminal consequences, that protect our privacy but essentially every government is of the opinion that actual privacy should never exist online because they think it’s better to sacrifice everyone’s privacy than to let a single criminal go undetected.

      This is why you see all Western governments simultaneously running “think of the children” campaigns as they slowly manuver the Internet into requiring every device be identifiable and linked to a person.

      This is why the end-to-end encrypted communication providers are also being pressured right now. Because with systems built using encryption to enforce the rules are actually private.

      Governments know this, as they heavily rely on encrypted communication systems. They just don’t want anybody else to have that privilege.

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      • higgsboson@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There are no private spaces online,

        your privacy is at the whim of whoever owns the servers

        Which is it? It logically cant be both. I own at least a dozen servers.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      People complaining here that security was to lax, people complaining in the next thread that the libre dev is the victim because security was to high.

      Is it possible to get both balanced, yes. But it will never make everyone happy.

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