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While the headline certainly is having a device like this needing to be ground open the other privacy concerns are quite possibly worse. Being able to track bo

While the headline certainly is having a device like this needing to be ground open the other privacy concerns are quite possibly worse. Being able to track both the name of who bought it and the location of someone using a device like this has got to be a near classic example of private information that hurts no one but could severely damage a person if it got out.

kennywinker 6y ago
THIS! The headline is about them getting locked on, because that's funny, but the buried lead is actually this: > The security researchers said they discovered a way to fool the server into disclosing the registered name of each device owner, among other personal details, as well as the co-ordinates of every location from where the app had been used. That's some really sensitive info, with the potential to destroy some lives, or be used as blackmail material.
- mindfulhack 6y ago
  I wish society were more sex-positive, stopped considering matters of sexuality or sexual activity to be so controversial, and stopped responding to them with such moral outrage to the point that your personal sexual activity could be considered something blackmail-worthy! (I think this is a bigger problem in America than Europe.) In either case, indeed, we need privacy (because other countries have terrible persecution around matters of mere sexuality) and as much maturity as we can muster when discussing it. I'm so proud of how mature this comment section is. Not a single giggling sexual joke in sight - at least here up at the top. Other sites would be riddled with it, with nothing serious discussed.
destxD 6y ago
Look at the map, one of the sample users is in Qatar! This could end way really, really badly; it is even more concerning after reading about the recent grinder fiasco with the Egyptian government.

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While the headline certainly is having a device like this needing to be ground open the other privacy concerns are quite possibly worse. Being able to track bo

by greycol 6y ago

kennywinker 6y ago
THIS! The headline is about them getting locked on, because that's funny, but the buried lead is actually this: > The security researchers said they discovered a way to fool the server into disclosing the registered name of each device owner, among other personal details, as well as the co-ordinates of every location from where the app had been used. That's some really sensitive info, with the potential to destroy some lives, or be used as blackmail material.
- mindfulhack 6y ago
  I wish society were more sex-positive, stopped considering matters of sexuality or sexual activity to be so controversial, and stopped responding to them with such moral outrage to the point that your personal sexual activity could be considered something blackmail-worthy! (I think this is a bigger problem in America than Europe.) In either case, indeed, we need privacy (because other countries have terrible persecution around matters of mere sexuality) and as much maturity as we can muster when discussing it. I'm so proud of how mature this comment section is. Not a single giggling sexual joke in sight - at least here up at the top. Other sites would be riddled with it, with nothing serious discussed.
destxD 6y ago
Look at the map, one of the sample users is in Qatar! This could end way really, really badly; it is even more concerning after reading about the recent grinder fiasco with the Egyptian government.