Everyone is talking about the poor security practices, which is fair. Or they are talking about the appropriateness of such an app existing, which is also fair.
But the immediate take away should be, especially in today’s political environment, that we cannot and should not trust sensitive data that leaves our device, particularly if you are of any kind of non privileged group.
Armand1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The company should be sued into the ground. This is horrendous
semperverus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Both the company, for failing to protect its users; and a large majority of its users, for doxxing and libel.
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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
socialsecurity@piefed.social 2 months ago
Just another story where victims go on to become absuers it seems.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, it’s on brand. The doxxing app is successfully doxxing people…
aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You get 89 cents in the settlement. Do you prefer to get a direct deposit or a check?
zarathustra0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nah, they just go bankrupt.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Nah, just stop using it. Sueing does nothing, it just benefits lawyers and not any of us.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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.)
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months 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