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If Uber had been circuit-bending the Lyft app or Lyft's API or rider/driver devices, I would think it unacceptable. But this information is being provided by Ly
by fapjacks 10y ago
If Uber had been circuit-bending the Lyft app or Lyft's API or rider/driver devices, I would think it unacceptable. But this information is being provided by Lyft inside their app. Uber was just aggregating this information and storing and analysing the data.
Also the NSA is doing a lot worse things and we know this for certain. I find it distressing how many people seemingly have forgotten about that. If the NSA were only going this far, I'd be pretty happy.
- pluma 10y ago> But this information is being provided by Lyft inside their app. No it isn't. Not according to the article. According to the article a fraction of that information is provided as part of the app but Uber went ahead and exploited the lack of operational security on Lyft's side to crawl _all_ the information by traversing over information intended for other users. Repeatedly.