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Show HN: It is too easy to get your private data stolen if you are a traveler
Having traveled with my older brother in Italy, I realized there is no good app for finding travelers who speak your language. For example, at Naples, we couldn't find many people who speak English at all. When I moved to the Netherlands I've got a new problem - it was hard to find people who speak my native language.
So I decided to develop an app.
But before doing it, I analysed market of existing products. I quickly found a bunch of competitors and started to research them. I was surprised that a lot of applications share private data of users, some of them share even passwords.
Here are a few examples of iOS apps, and the pictures will say everything for themselves:
backpackr
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sd5txstnwagzsb/res_back.png?dl=0
You can get email, facebook ID and password of any user over cleartext http
travelmate
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xopdo2rx0tem30r/res_travelmate.png?dl=0 http, email, facebook_id
booola
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8y811yfupeuo1b/res_booola.png?dl=0 emai, facebook_id
trippers
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xkh62i5pg5rbe1v/res_trippers.png?dl=0 emai, facebook_id
outbound
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hjw1fpts5xaeons/res_outbound.png?dl=0 email
party with a local
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hunjtgvo46p24b7/res_party.png?dl=0 email
Is it a normal practice?
- panika 11y agoextremely insecure!!
- brudgers 11y agoBecause the spirit of "Show HN" is for things people can try out or play with [1], this would probably be better as an "Ask HN". But even then, with all the links it would perhaps be best shared as a blog post and a regular submission. [1]: Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
- frenky 11y agoI dont have blog
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