Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder • Hacker News Board

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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Post by colecut » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 2:41 AM UTC

Connection count is just how many friends they have, not how many swipes.

There's nothing new to discover with this 'hack', seeing your friends' tinder profiles is what tinder social does.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#32

Post by redwood » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 2:41 AM UTC

How can I tell if I've even been opted in? Bastards. I'm a paying customer and they pull this crap.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#33

Post by redwood » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 2:41 AM UTC

How can I tell if I've even been opted in? Bastards. I'm a paying customer and they pull this crap.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#34

Post by jocro » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 2:44 AM UTC

mdadm wrote: post #25

That's kind of scary that you can get that information just by (if I read this right) having the user ID of someone you "matched" with. This feels like it could lead to all sorts of weird stalking or something if a first-date went badly. On an unrelated note, I liked the way that the post was written. It made reading the details more interesting (but then again, I'm one of those young whippersnappers, so maybe I'm ju…

> having the user ID of someone you "matched" with

Most of the information was already available to someone you matched with (that's the whole point of matching), barring the 'last logged in' value. The real concern is that you can get the user id of any of your facebook friends, exposing information that was previously hidden unless you did match. Matching relies on two-party consent, this violates that for a subset of users.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 2:46 AM UTC

peterwwillis wrote: post #24

defaultnamehere wrote: post #3

'gender’: 1, // 1 is female, 0 is male. C’mon Tinder that’s not how gender works C'mon Tinder.

No, I would definitely agree that male is negative and female is positive. Unless there's a race condition.

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Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 2:48 AM UTC

mdadm wrote: post #25

That's kind of scary that you can get that information just by (if I read this right) having the user ID of someone you "matched" with. This feels like it could lead to all sorts of weird stalking or something if a first-date went badly. On an unrelated note, I liked the way that the post was written. It made reading the details more interesting (but then again, I'm one of those young whippersnappers, so maybe I'm ju…

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Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#37

Post by cloudjacker » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 2:49 AM UTC

how do you build this in OSX? Apple's python situation is out of control

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#38

Post by Smerity » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 2:49 AM UTC

Crito wrote: post #30

Smerity wrote: post #29

It's a surprise that Tinder launched Tinder Social just now in the US given that's the main source of the leaked data. Tinder Social was (and remains) opt-out in Australia while he was writing the article. Even if Tinder Social is now opt-in in the US, the fact they were dismissive of the vulnerability disclosure is concerning. Any social network with deteriorating privacy is bad. One where the content can potentiall…

> If you start on a service and it kept becoming more public by default, then we have a problem. If this isn't criminal, it should be. People belong in jail for this sort of thing.

Have you seen the (now quite ancient) animated evolution of default Facebook privacy settings[1]? It's insane.

It's for this reason that, by default, I assume essentially everything I do online is public. My username is my name, almost everything on Facebook is defaulted to public, etc.

If you live under the assumption that you're never private, you'll never make the mistake of thinking you are.

[1]: http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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Post by rhubarbquid » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 2:52 AM UTC

mdadm wrote: post #25

That's kind of scary that you can get that information just by (if I read this right) having the user ID of someone you "matched" with. This feels like it could lead to all sorts of weird stalking or something if a first-date went badly. On an unrelated note, I liked the way that the post was written. It made reading the details more interesting (but then again, I'm one of those young whippersnappers, so maybe I'm ju…

> That's kind of scary that you can get that information just by (if I read this right) having the user ID of someone you "matched" with.

Not quite... the API returns the Tinder user ID of all your Facebook friends that use Tinder. You can see who uses it, when they last used it, what picture they use there, etc.

You can also "swipe right" or "swipe left" using the API on anyone you have the Tinder user ID of, even if Tinder never matched them with you.

So it's scary in a "creep on your friends" way not in a "creep on strangers" way.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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Post by spiznnx » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 2:52 AM UTC

cloudjacker wrote: post #37

how do you build this in OSX? Apple's python situation is out of control

  virtualenv venv --python=python3.5
  source venv/bin/activate
  pip install -r requirements.txt