Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨bytesonbike@discuss.online⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.404media.co/women-dating-safety-app-tea-breached-users-ids-posted-to-4chan/

Users from 4chan claim to have discovered an exposed database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase, belonging to the newly popular women’s dating safety app Tea. Users say they are rifling through peoples’ personal data and selfies uploaded to the app, and then posting that data online, according to screenshots, 4chan posts, and code reviewed by 404 Media.

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Clbull@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Tea is the offshoot of all those “Are We Dating The Same Guy” Facebook groups where ladies talk shit, slander and creep-shame guys they went on dates with.

Part of me wants to celebrate this breach because damn those groups are toxic a f. But also, it’s a textbook argument for why mandatory age verification laws need to be abolished. AWDTSG works as a way to keep women safe when it’s used as intended but there are too many women that will slander men with false allegations purely out of spite.

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- forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Right, because only women are the problem, and men are paragons of virtue.
  
  Fuck off
  
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  - Clbull@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Did I state that? No?
    
    You can fuck off.
    
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  - Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Right because the comment obviously said that no man did bad things
    
    Fuck off
    
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thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Another example of why people shouldn’t be uploading/sharing nudes on any platform when the pretense is that it will only be between 2 people. That just isn’t realistic anymore. Never was, really. I still don’t get how people can hear and know about all the hacks happening now but they can’t see that sending nudes is somehow safe? Why does society work this way?

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- Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Send nudes on Signal!
  
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- brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I guess sending nudes is the norm an ‘expected?’ There’s social pressure to conform, and as we know, security isnt generally in the front of people’s minds…
  
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M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
One would have hoped the lesson here would be about the dangers of commoditfiying everything as a fucking “app”, but no, it looks like its not the increadably irresponsible company at fault (as is tradition).

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Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Reading these incredible comments has revealed a large piece of what was named as the reason for lemm.ee shutting down.

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- Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  what was that?
  
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  - Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Moderation.
    
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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I can’t open the article, but I think I read that this was hosted on an unprotected bucket. Assuming that’s correct I wouldn’t say this was a breach. A better headline would be “Women dating safety app ‘Tea’ exposed women’s PII”.

To be 100% clear, I’m not excusing the hackers. I don’t believe it’s morally correct to publicize something because it is exposed. For folks curious about that you can look into how to ethically disclose vulnerabilities. I still view this as doxxing. I still believe what the hackers did should be a criminal offense, it’s just that I also believe the app holds a ton of the blame as well. How can you proclaim to be about keeping women safe while putting them at risk? That should be punished as well.

Like if the storage facility you trusted to hold your stuff never had locks on the doors, shouldn’t they take a lot of the blame as well as the thief who found out a door was unlocked?

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- Clbull@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They also said they deleted IDs once users were verified. The breach proved that to be an outright lie.
  
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  - JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Criminal negligence.
    
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- teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Soft rules have never applied to the internet.
  
  Things that you wouldn’t do afk, just because “those are the rules”, doesn’t apply when every empathy damaged person in the world with an internet connection can break them.
  
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  - JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well said.
    
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- hopesdead@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The bigger problem is trying to get the mainstream that would read an article like that to understand the technical difference between hacking and accessing unsecured data.
  
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  - null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The term has had so many definitions its not really meaningful.
    
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  - phx@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The storage facility concept is kinda close, if you count it as “a storage facility beside a major intersection in a big facility, with the locker doors left open despite meant the warning at the front desk not to do so”
    
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  - JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    One of the definitions of hacking is illegally gaining access to a computer system. It doesn’t need to involve any sort of exploit. Stealing from an unlocked home is still stealing. Gaining access to a system by phishing is still hacking. Leaking data that is technically publicly accessible that isn’t meant to be publicly accessible is still hacking.
    
    Not that I suspect anything good from 4chan but the proper thing to do would be to disclose to Tea that their data is public and allow them to fix the problem. The ethics of vulnerability disclosure still apply when the vulnerability is “hey you literally didn’t secure this at all.”
    
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SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Never upload PII to social media

Your privacy is not legally protected.

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- seejur@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Tell that to UK citizens. They have to. To be “protected”. The itony
  
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  - phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I live in the UK and, like nearly everyone else in the UK, have never been required to do this. The only time it’s required is when accessing adult-only sites, and there are some obvious workarounds in those cases, yarr.
    
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BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is why there should be a nationwide rule that PII data should be deleted after the users identity has been verified

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- phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A better rule is that PII data should never be used as a basis for auth/auth except by government agencies in the process of delivering legally mandated government services.
  
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- mang0@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Truly impressive how little america cares about its citizens.
  
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  - blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    BUT WE HAVE FREEDUM!!!
    
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- Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There should be a time limit on all data.
  
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simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hungry data privacy lawyers when they learned about Tea this week:

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VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t quite understand the outrage in the thread. I’ve been looking through the comments, trying to see if this ever went beyond gossip and I can’t find anything.

From my understanding the app was intended to be a safe space for women to discuss dating. Relaying information about dangerous individuals, or people who cheat. I can imagine that things might have gotten slightly out of hand in regards to anonymous gossip, but is that anything compared to being doxxed? Besides, women, and men have been gossiping behind each others backs for as long as humans have existed. An anonymous app makes it significantly worse certainly, but it is what it is. This behavior is always going to exist for better or for worse. For example, people already discuss this on sites like fetlife since the risk of ending up with someone who wants to batter you for the sake of battering you is somewhat high there.

Surely we can have some sympathy for people who have had their identifications doxxed by 4chan who haven’t done anything worse than a bit of toxic gossip at most?

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- ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  might have gotten slightly out of hand in regards to anonymous gossip, but is that anything compared to being doxxed?
  
  Well considering the app has profiles of guys with pics all uploaded without their consent or even awareness, and in addition to unaccountable anonymous gossip, the “pro” features include their entire background, address, phone number, etc? I’d say the doxxing app got it’s users doxxed and it’s really sort of a wash. I don’t even use facebook or post pics online and now people dumb enough to upload their ID can upload unremovable pictures of me? Cool.
  
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- rozodru@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  you’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?”
  
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  - VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
    
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UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What are the chances of this being the main reason for the app’s existence?

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- Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Seeing as the word hack is doing a lot of heavy lifting. They didn’t bother to actually secure the data and then put it on the internet for anyone to access.
  
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dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The replies in this thread are disturbing, gives me a sense that Lemmy has a misogyny problem; maybe I was naïve, but I expected outrage about 4chan doxxing women trying to protect one another, instead I see lots of revenge enjoyment as if being doxxed on 4chan is justice for … <checks notes> warning one another about dangerous men they encounter when dating?

The inability to empathize and take seriously the threats posed to women or to understand their motivation to protect one another is alarming.

There is no good faith extended, but also no evidence presented that instead of safety the app was just for gossip, it’s just taken as assumed that women are wrong for using Tea and they all deserve to be doxxed.

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- SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Apparently the platform operated as some sort of gossipping/reporting system where unaware men and guys could be posted, so they could basicallly do the same thing that happened to them, all on one if the most unsafe system possible.
  
  Honestly I see this as a consequence of their own actions mostly the database was unprotected. Their purpose was to document men behind their back. Turns out it backfired.
  
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  - kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    “According to predators on 4chan the platform operated as what the users thought was a secure way to discuss potentially dangerous men on dating platforms with women in similar situations, this is naturally completely equivalent to exposing the women who were attempting to be safer and putting any and all private info of theirs online for predators to access. The level of risk in going on first dates with people you met on the internet is completely equivalent for straight men and straight women and it serves them right for trying to help eachother stay safe by comparing notes”
    
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- Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Lemmy is full of people with a lot of technical knowledge, who look down on anyone without it. Just look at their responses to someone complaining and an issue on Windows, it’s just a hundred people telling you what Linux distro they use.
  
  It’s not so much mysogyny, they just can’t pass up the opportunity to be smug about something.
  
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  - otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    it’s just a hundred people telling you what Linux distro they use.
    
    Oh come on, Lemmy doesn’t have that many users!
    
    /s
    
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- zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It isn’t the women who are wrong; it’s the app developer and 4chan. But setting aside the data breach, creating a Yelp for dating is a ticking time bomb. They were going to get sued out the ass, data breach or no data breach. I don’t know how many times this needs to happen, but I guess web developers have the memory of goldfish. There have been several attempts at something similar that got shut down for the obvious reasons. Making a website that rates human beings is always going to be a legal minefield.
  
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  - WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Don’t trust dating apps ever. Literally better off dating someone you meet at a park.
    
    Less chance an algorithm set you up to fail.
    
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- joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Well lets be honest if someone made a gender inverse version ofctea many people would b concerned about what is being shared on the app. Honestly i find tesla disturbing and the 4 chan doxing dangerous. Both sides can be bad.
  
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  - ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Those already exist. 4chan (yes, they even kind of invented cancel culture with going after “whores” in the late 2000’s), kiwifarms, various manosphere forums, Andrew Tate’s Discord server, etc.
    
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  - dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    sorry, are men concerned for their safety dating women such that a gender inverted version of this app makes sense? Your ignorance is what I’m talking about here …
    
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- JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ve been seeing a lot of misogony here the past week or so. It’s disheartening.
  
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  - WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I wonder what that is about?
    
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- Gemini24601@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The Tea app is agnostic. While its purpose and main use case was made for the safety of women in the dating scene, it was inevitably used to spread exaggerated or misleading information about otherwise innocent men. Imagine being a privacy-conscious individual, and breaking up with a toxic woman. She could go on to spread lies about you and even upload pictures of you to the reverse image search/ai. So even if you were doing everything right from a privacy standpoint, you’d still end up in someone’s private database, subjected to ai training, shared with the government, or who knows what. While I do see the purpose of apps like these, they can effectively take away someone’s privacy/dignity without them even knowing about it. Now imagine being a 4channer, someone probably even more privacy-conscious than lemmings, and possibly experiencing mental disorders like paranoid schizophrenia or autism; of course they’re drawn to hacking an app that would destroy their privacy. They are not sane individuals, so this event really was inevitable.
  
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  - echodot@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Look at the screenshot in the article. That’s what their website looks like, it absolutely looks like it’s focusing on gossiping rather than women’s safety on dates.
    
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- SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think you are misunderstanding why people are upset.
  
  It’s horrible that these women were doxxed.
  
  It’s also horrible that a subset of women were doxxing men, which is what brought this negative attention to the site.
  
  Misogyny is real in our society, misandry is real.
  
  Saying things happen for sexist reasons when it was for a logical reason does a disservice to movements that seek equality.
  
  The internet also cheered on the 4chan PII leak that happened recently, not becauase it’s a male dominant space, but because they do shitty things like dox people.
  
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- Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Tea could easily be used for two extremely different purposes:
  
  Legitimate use to inform and protect women from abusive men
  
  Illegitimate use to spread misinformation (libel!) about men with no verification of truth or reasonable appeal process
  
  The idea of Tea isn’t bad-- I’ve thought about the potential utility of similar apps myself-- but most people who are reacting badly are recognizing that it’s a nearly impossible moderation problem that will be used for bad things too.
  
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  - dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    of course, the app has obvious problems, but I don’t see that as justifying the gloating and sense of revenge enjoyment happening.
    
    Instead I see a kind of discontent about women I find concerning, which seems ignorant of the widespread violence women experience or what it’s like for women who take risks when dating men.
    
    Men are not all equally problematic or privileged, but they are generally in a position of power relative to women and are acting like the victims here.
    
    They should direct their discontent to patriarchy which creates the situation where violence against women is dismissed or accepted, and which motivates women to use apps to check if the person they are dating has a history of violent behavior.
    
    Patriarchy which perpetuates the narrative that men are natural predators and women natural prey is what victimizes men here, not the women who rightfully fear and feel victimized by the minority of men who are violent.
    
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  - Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Why is everything we do, when we band together, seen as suspect and dangerous?
    
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- wizbiz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “gossip” is for safety. It’s often information that men don’t shared so it’s painted like it’s bad. Claiming women shouldn’t gossip is just more misogyny.
  
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  - dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There is some of that happening, like when women get together and discuss how they’re being treated it’s “gossip” and inherently immoral.
    
    I think some men might read what you’ve said and think you are denying any toxic gossip exists, it’s important to have nuance and not alienate men who otherwise would be allies, but I think overall your point is well taken.
    
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- DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m all for groups of safe spaces for women. Especially when it’s designed to keep them safe while dating. I have my doubts that Tea was that. Even if it was advertised as such, “tea” is slang for the word gossip. I’ve heard stories from several sources that it was used to dox people as well. Not saying what happened to the users is right. I think some users here are just feeling smug that this might cause the app to fail or shut down.
  
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  - zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, naming it “Tea” is really the cherry on top. I’d love to know more about the people behind this. It’s hard to believe that anybody would be this oblivious. I guess the same kind of people who wouldn’t secure their database.
    
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  - dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    The app enables the photos to be run through a reverse image search, enabling them to run a basic background check, check against public sex offender databases, and check for photos that might get flagged as being used in “catfishing” — misrepresenting one’s identity online.
    
    The app also features a “Tea Party Group Chat,” which allows users to directly share information about men, and has a rating function, which allows users to share their experiences with Yelp-style reviews, awarding men a “green flag” or a “red flag.”
    
    www.cnn.com/2025/07/…/tea-app-dating-privacy-cec
    
    It’s a bit like Rate My Professor, but for dating.
    
    Honestly I cyncially expect this kind of app might inevitably exist for rating people of all genders, but the reason this app exists has directly to do with the violence women face from intimate partners.
    
    The point is that men who are enjoying the doxxing of women who have used this app are ignoring the context, or even have a warped sense of the context, as if this is narrowly about (legitimate) privacy concerns.
    
    Even if the concerns about the app are justified, the revenge enjoyment betrays a much harder to defense view that all the women who used the app are equally cupable, or that doxxing women using the app is equivalent to women doxxing abusive men through the app.
    
    Men are not all equally privileged, but there is a broad inequality both to how violence is distributed and how that plays out in dating situations. Women are not wrong to fear men. One in three women have experienced sexual or physical violence, most of that violence being perpetuated by men.
    
    Since this is the context for the use of this app, it’s not neutral to doxx its users or to claim it’s fair because men feel (legitimate) concerns about the app’s privacy violations.
    
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  - Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Could you share said sources? It’s irrelevant though because justifying this doxxing SHOULD mean that the entirety of 4chan is a justifiable dox target. If you don’t believe that, then you should be against it happening against Tea users. They’re at the very least guilty of the same thing (in this case. 4chan is guilty of much more heinous things than just this).
    
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- LePoisson@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Your comment was on top for me in my app, so I was like “oh how bad could it be.”. Holy shit you’re not wrong, there’s some disgusting comments that are getting voted up.
  
  I’m low-key disappointed and appalled by these community members who believe these women “deserve” it for … Trying to help each other be safer?
  
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  - jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    saw this happening here, saw it happening in reddit threads on the topic, saw it all over the media cycle in the comments.
    
    i agree, people’s visceral backlash against this app is steeped in a deep misogyny.
    
    watching people take somewhat valid privacy concerns as an excuse to let loose their most toxic feelings towards women used to be the sort of thing only losers or emboldened megalomaniacs did in public, even just a decade ago.
    
    in the past years i’ve just seen all my peers, regardless of political affiliation, manipulated into a cult of outrage that serves as another hamster wheel upon which capital may spin.
    
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- bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This comment is one hour old, let’s give you my SS and CC info
  
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    ??
    
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- MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And even if it was purely a gossip app, an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
  
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Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I had been under the impression that 4chan had also basically died due to their own site getting hacked

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- Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s not like it was a complicated site, they just rebuilt it in some modern framework on the cheap.
  
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- RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  the site got hacked and most of the admins were revealed to have .gov emails but everyone pretty much already expected that so nobody actually cared and it’s back to business as usual
  
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  - damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    most of the admins were revealed to have .gov emails
    
    I remember reading that this was something someone just made up and was spread a bunch, but wasn’t true at all.
    
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  - outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh my god that’s… So stupid, i hate this time line.
    
    Dirty water that would behave no different if you sifted out the proteins.
    
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- Noturbuddy@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That which has no life can never truly die (or something)
  
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  - burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That is not dead which can eternal lie, and in strange eons even death may die.
    
    I think?
    
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ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Maybe I’m just getting old, but the idea of “verifying” my real identity to a faceless website or mobile app is abhorrent.

I guess it doesn’t help that governments in some countries (UK, Australia that I know of) are encouraging this bullshit with Trojan horse laws claiming to protect children from adult websites / social media.

Can’t help but think there is also an element of pot meet kettle here, when users of an app designed to dox and slander people without their knowledge are now the ones getting doxxed themselves.

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- kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  California, Utah, Texas all have laws now requiring age verification to use an app store
  
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  - ftbd@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’d be interested to know how that works with F-Droid or Aurora.
    
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  - givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If you think that’s the same thing, you don’t understand at least on of those things, but safe money is both…
    
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gnu@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
People sign up to app intended to share personal information about others without their permission, end up having their own personal information shared without permission - the irony is impressive.

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lenz@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I made an account on this thing to lurk, bc obviously who wouldn’t be curious? I guess I’m screwed now. Rip.

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Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Protecting our users’ privacy and data is our highest priority. We are taking every necessary step to ensure the security of our platform

Since sensitive data was put on a public bucket, maybe they meant it was their lowest priority?

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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Wow that was fast.

I did not even know this app existed untill about 8 hours ago.

Already comprimised.

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Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Self proclaimed “5 star man” Dennis Reynolds is the top suspect

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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I would not under any circumstances give my drivers license to a for profit app. I don’t even like to give my email.

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sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is what happens when you decide to vibecode a service with zero attention to safety or web development. This is why you don’t immediately jump onto a new service without it being vetted properly. Now one of the worst communities on the Internet is in possession of over a hundred thousand women’s driving licenses and faces. This is going to be an absolute disaster.

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zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I thought 4chan shut down permanently like 2 months ago?

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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Stay classy, 4chan. /facepalm

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ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not sure if this is ironic that the users are now less safe after using the safety app. But I still feel bad for the users. Dating is hard enough without the fear of being harmed.

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bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My friend came over and told me a story about this crazy date she was on. The guy love bombs her, sets her up with a massage, then in the morning, goes out and eats McDonalds alone and ghosts her. Then repeats every few weeks with love bombs.

I shared that with my discord group and someone said they know that guy too.

Im assuming that’s what Tea is for.

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