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I've gone through this same exercise in the past in order to mass-delete a large number of comments on different threads. I was afraid that Blind may one day su
by bowmessage 7y ago
I've gone through this same exercise in the past in order to mass-delete a large number of comments on different threads. I was afraid that Blind may one day suffer a data leak. I attempted to reroll the crypto in Ruby, but ultimately failed and went the JS route, same as the author. I also had to roll my own sesion-token refresh logic. Finally I was wondering if any kind of data mining could be done with the tool, but I never took it that far. Thanks for the writeup!
- choppaface 7y agoWell they already had at least one breach: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/blind-anonymous-app-data-exposure/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/blind-anonymous-app-data-e...
- sonicggg 7y agoYou'd think that engineers from top - tier tech companies would know better, before sharing sensitive information on some random website.
- tehlike 7y agoPeople like venting.
- seangrogg 7y agoOthers don't even care if the info was de-anonymized in the first place and just enjoyed the topics that were more openly discussed there.
- choppaface 7y agoA lot of engineers make money off Blind through referrals, if not through Blind's service ( https://www.rooftopslushie.com/ https://www.rooftopslushie.com/ ) then through private messages.