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Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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Post by cloudjacker »

spiznnx wrote: post #40
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

first line isn't working for me

virtualenv venv --python=python3.5 Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/local/bin/python3.5 Using base prefix '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5' New python executable in venv/bin/python3.5 Also creating executable in venv/bin/python Failed to import the site module Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/ericlw/Development/tinder-detective/venv/bin/../lib/python3.5/site.py", line 67, in import os File "/Users/ericlw/Development/tinder-detective/venv/bin/../lib/python3.5/os.py", line 708, in from _collections_abc import MutableMapping ImportError: No module named '_collections_abc' ERROR: The executable venv/bin/python3.5 is not functioning ERROR: It thinks sys.prefix is '/Users/ericlw/Development/tinder-detective' (should be '/Users/ericlw/Development/tinder-detective/venv') ERROR: virtualenv is not compatible with this system or executable

ugh none of this python 3 stuff works right

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

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.

No worries, Tinder doesn't ask for your race.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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Post by ebfe »

talaketu wrote: post #21
mrits wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there more than two genders now?

yes, as there always has been in the grammar of English and many other languages.

The commenter your responding to is most likely using "gender" to refer to the concept you would describe as "sex". That is, the biological characteristic of being male or female rather than a grammatical concept.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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Post by derefr »

rhubarbquid wrote: post #39
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 i…

> 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 you're saying I can brute-force iterate through the entire Tinder userbase and swipe right on everyone automatically?

Finally! The feature we've all been waiting for!

(More than a little sarcasm here.)

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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Post by SwellJoe »

I love security posts like this. His previous one about facebook messenger status was also really nicely done.

He doesn't succumb to the temptation to be abusive (to either the people who made the thing he's testing, the people reading, or anyone who might be impacted by it), which is something a lot of security researchers seem to find impossible to avoid; there's a lot of calling people various forms of stupid in many incident reports. Even when given ample opportunity by the Tinder folks to call them names, he didn't do so (and, didn't blow it out of proportion, either...it's problematic, but if you're using Facebook and Tinder, you probably are already aware you're giving up a lot of privacy; this is a big deal, but not vastly bigger than using facebook all by itself).

He explains clearly what he did, and what tools he used to do it, which is another thing that often gets left out. Many security folks follow the magician's code ("never show'em how it's done"), and are dismissive that mere mortals could ever understand what they do.

And, he tells a good story in the process. All around, top notch technical writing about a usually boring subject.

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