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"Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by Groxx »

stcredzero wrote: post #96
Groxx wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Accurate-enough (sub-second in my case) timing of events + physical proximity (both your browser and the app ask for your location) = a near guarantee that your browser session + your phone is a unique pair. It also asks for confirmation on both the phone and browser to pair the first time. There's no real chance of this being man-in-the-middled since you have to confirm on both devices. And they're being intelligent…

There's no real chance of this being man-in-the-middled I'll need more convincing. Once you've approved, they have a browser + app pair of cookies Exactly what's keeping the cookie on the browser and the phone from being copied? You must be leaving out some details. This doesn't strike me as "good as it gets."

>* Exactly what's keeping the cookie on the browser and the phone from being copied?*

SSL. Either you trust it or you don't. Similarly, either you trust the CAs to work (preventing a real MITM on https traffic) or you don't. Which makes this as secure as your banking site, except for the initial pairing, which I dare say they do more safely than any bank I've seen.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by nohat »

tjoff wrote: post #106
potatolicious wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some feedback: I just filled out my virtual card with my contact info, and suddenly got an email from you guys in my inbox. I didn't sign up for an account or anything. IMO this is pretty shitty - I put this information into the app to send to other people, not so Bump can email me. And now I feel iffy putting other data into the app - Bump is not strictly the data exchange platform I thought it was. This is a violat…

"Please try again. Bump works better if you enable location on your browser." Seems like bump works better without enabling location, maybe because I prefer it to fail rather than to spy on me. Talk about not failing gracefully.

Bump actually does need the location, because it's important to filtering all the requests they get. It could certainly be abused, but unlike most other apps that ask your location bump actually needs it.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by vegashacker »

morsch wrote: post #67

Why is the Bump Android app 2.74 megabytes large? That seems excessive. Huh, that doesn't seem to be a welcome comment. I'm not sure why. Bump doesn't strike me as an app that ought to require large media files. Does it contain any? If so, why? Is the binary itself that big? If so, why? Large dependencies? Either way, the size stopped me from checking it out: it takes up space on my device, it takes work to move it t…

If you download it and get it in iTunes on your computer (either via syncing or downloading it there in the first place), then you can inspect the package yourself pretty easily.

But in my experience, 2.74mb is not a large iOS app.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by 83457 »

ebbv wrote: post #113

This isn't remotely brilliant. This seems completely unnecessary and gimmicky.

I'm just viewing this as a proof of concept. If this works for uploading photos then it could work for anything tieing a bump profile to a website. For example now people use facebook to login to various sites. What if you could just bump your phone on spacebar to login or signup for an account on any site which uses their api even if you have not visited that site before, and provide them with information you selected on your phone. Could even be used for additional login verification of sorts. Sounds pretty cool and at least remotely brilliant to me.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by ceejayoz »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #72

So what stops me from feeding Bump false data and effectively hold the space bar down to steal ALL the photos?

I'd imagine they'll block your IP quickly if you're sending a spacebar event for dozens of different location points every second.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

dustin wrote: post #119
ebbv wrote: post #113

This isn't remotely brilliant. This seems completely unnecessary and gimmicky.

Yup 1) I don't get it, so I'm unlikely to think it's brilliant without trying. (So now I need a laptop to upload photos from my mobile?...) 2) I wouldn't download this to try Bump without some better explanation, especially given implicit data protection reputation of just about every big consumer-facing company these days (especially one that trades in contact details.) 3) The title is full of gratuitous editorializ…

Gratuitous editorialization? It's a pretty simple description of the site.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by bellbind »

tewks wrote: post #57

Want to build magic like this into your own iOS or Android app? Try out our brand new, super fast APIs: https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-ios https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-android Email me if you have any questions: tg@bu.mp

Here's some feedback : tapping the spacebar with the phone? That's dumb. Why? I have to hit hard for the "bump" to happen. But that's not really a problem since hitting a keyboard with a cellphone makes no sense. Consider another scenario :

a) The user clicks somewhere (or vocal command?) to enter a listening state.

b) Then he shakes his phone.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by wingerlang »

dustin wrote: post #119
ebbv wrote: post #113

This isn't remotely brilliant. This seems completely unnecessary and gimmicky.

Yup 1) I don't get it, so I'm unlikely to think it's brilliant without trying. (So now I need a laptop to upload photos from my mobile?...) 2) I wouldn't download this to try Bump without some better explanation, especially given implicit data protection reputation of just about every big consumer-facing company these days (especially one that trades in contact details.) 3) The title is full of gratuitous editorializ…

I find it brilliant. I usually email my photos to myself to get them from iPhone->laptop. That takes effort. Here I could just select and they show up on my screen almost instantly.

Re: "Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader

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Post by lloeki »

bellbind wrote: post #137
tewks wrote: post #57

Want to build magic like this into your own iOS or Android app? Try out our brand new, super fast APIs: https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-ios https://github.com/bumptech/bump-api-android Email me if you have any questions: tg@bu.mp

Here's some feedback : tapping the spacebar with the phone? That's dumb. Why? I have to hit hard for the "bump" to happen. But that's not really a problem since hitting a keyboard with a cellphone makes no sense. Consider another scenario : a) The user clicks somewhere (or vocal command?) to enter a listening state . b) Then he shakes his phone.

But then you lose the thing that "magically" links the phone to the computer, i.e the simultaneous record of the event occurence.
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