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Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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Post by wingerlang »

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…

> I assumed I was safe from judgement by my family and their friends. Then Tinder rips that privacy you thought you had away!

Why would you think your profile is "secret" in any way to begin with? It is literally an app that shows you others using it NEARBY yourself. And a highly popular one at that.

The profiles are also public and there is no indication to them being private as far as I've ever read about the app.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#82

Post by legodt »

collyw wrote: post #67
zeta0134 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, and I'm not sure why he's getting downvoted. This is a legitimate Facebook feature. Gender can be either Male, Female, or Custom, and Facebook gives you the option to choose which gender pronouns you prefer. Thus, to see it represented as a boolean is unusual. I'm curious as to what the value of that field is when a user has chosen Facebook's custom gender display options.

I am sticking with the biological definition.

The biological definition is not real. Binary genders are a trend, not a certainty in nature.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#84

Post by Strom »

collyw wrote: post #67
zeta0134 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, and I'm not sure why he's getting downvoted. This is a legitimate Facebook feature. Gender can be either Male, Female, or Custom, and Facebook gives you the option to choose which gender pronouns you prefer. Thus, to see it represented as a boolean is unusual. I'm curious as to what the value of that field is when a user has chosen Facebook's custom gender display options.

I am sticking with the biological definition.

There are more than two options in conservative biology as well. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#85

Post by moogleii »

Freak_NL wrote: post #63
SwellJoe wrote: post #47

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 m…

The overall technical outline of the issue and what he did to figure it out are clear — and certainly interesting — but I am having a hard time reading the blog post. This writing style is exhausting to me. Instead of reading normally I find myself skipping more and more text to get to the bits that aren't silly jokes and internet slang. A shame, because it hides the technical insights he has. At least he's not inser…

You haven't mastered the art of internet reading? I.e. aggressive skimming combined with ctrl/cmd-f to get to the meat and potatoes?

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#86

Post by AjithAntony »

wingerlang wrote: post #81
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…

> I assumed I was safe from judgement by my family and their friends. Then Tinder rips that privacy you thought you had away! Why would you think your profile is "secret" in any way to begin with? It is literally an app that shows you others using it NEARBY yourself. And a highly popular one at that. The profiles are also public and there is no indication to them being private as far as I've ever read about the app.

One could say that there is an expectation that only other tinder users will discover you. Kinda like going to a bar or a strip club, which are activities that your community may disapprove of. Thus, you only encounter members outside of your community, or community members who are cool with it.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#87

Post by dajohnson89 »

Freak_NL wrote: post #63
SwellJoe wrote: post #47

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 m…

The overall technical outline of the issue and what he did to figure it out are clear — and certainly interesting — but I am having a hard time reading the blog post. This writing style is exhausting to me. Instead of reading normally I find myself skipping more and more text to get to the bits that aren't silly jokes and internet slang. A shame, because it hides the technical insights he has. At least he's not inser…

Edgiest security blog post ever.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#88

Post by Amezarak »

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…

Unless I'm missing something, the information displayed is shown for every Tinder user you see on the app before and after you are matched. There is no additional data leaked.

What it does do is allow you to quickly find your Facebook friends quickly among the thousands of Tinder users in your area. You can find them anyway with enough swiping.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#89

Post by striking »

josephmx wrote: post #71
striking wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The funny part is that you're getting downvoted when it's actually defined as a float. Like, you weren't kidding. They honestly made it a float. What.

Facebook supports a third gender

But that could be represented with an int, right? Why float?

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#90

Post by CPLX »

SwellJoe wrote: post #47

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 m…

Indeed. It would be even better if it were translated into English from whatever hybrid internet-speak language this is.
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