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The company should be sued into the ground. This is horrendous
In any other engineering discipline this would he negligence.
At least some of the negligence is on Google, for the atrocious default security settings in Firebase
The vulnerability is called hospital gown because they leave the back end wide open by design. It's not even a traditional vulnerability, since it's technically working as intended
In fairness if you leave Firebase in its default settings it won't shut up about it.
You get warnings on the website, and constant emails telling you that you're being a pillocked.
Both the company, for failing to protect its users; and a large majority of its users, for doxxing and libel.
Its unfortunate that it happened this way, but now the people who are being libeled against and doxxed have the ability to find out about it where they didn't before.
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
Arguing that tea was for "telling on predatory dudes" is like saying backdooring encryption is to catch people spreading CP.
That's what the creator of the site said it was for.
Would you believe me if I told you some systems are used for other things than what's intended?
Sure, if you have evidence. What do you think it was really being used for? And what's your evidence?
No need for evidence. The idea of anyone being able to claim anything about a person without proof is inherently flawed. Are you saying that the app has some magical feature which forces everyone to tell the truth? No disgruntled ex can make up things about their previous partner? I would love to see you prove that.
No, of course I'm not saying that. It's a profoundly stupid idea because it is so open to abuse. That doesn't mean that the majority of users are abusing it, though, which seems to be what you're claiming.
The Uk said the OSA is to protect children. But people lie.
This is some Grade-A whataboutism right here.
Of COURSE the people in that group chat deserve punishment, and probably the same 20 years that French(?) guy got depending on who all did what.
Just because that happened though doesn't excuse that this happened. The company did a horrendous thing by holding onto highly sensitive and private data it said it should have deleted and then failed to secure it in any way, AND the userbase was absolutely vile and abusive towards men.
All three things need to see justice brought to them, and you should not excuse one just because another happened and wasn't dealt with properly.
Just another story where victims go on to become absuers it seems.
You get 89 cents in the settlement. Do you prefer to get a direct deposit or a check?
Nah, they just go bankrupt.
1 week free access to the service that did it in the first place is my favorite class action outcome.
Nah, just stop using it. Sueing does nothing, it just benefits lawyers and not any of us.
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.
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
People complaining here that security was to lax, people complaining in the next thread that the libre dev is the victim because security was to high.
Is it possible to get both balanced, yes. But it will never make everyone happy.