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Behind Grindr's Doomed Hookup in China

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Re: Behind Grindr's Doomed Hookup in China

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Post by novok »

calf wrote: post #8
kristopolous wrote: post #5

The most amazing part of this acquisition was discovering there's a gay dating app called "blue" that I bet most americans, even those in the space, have never heard of with 10 times the traffic of grindr. And grindr isn't obscure or known only among gays, I've heard it joked about on late night television and light-hearted NPR shows. It's part of the zietgiest whether you're in the target demo or not. I guess the do…

I have Blued, but I barely use it as loading pics and messages on it is so sluggish. There's literally a spinning cursor that comes up for actions that should be quite trivial for the user.

The servers are probably only in the great firewall, so any outside of china connection will be make horrible on purpose by the chinese government.

Re: Behind Grindr's Doomed Hookup in China

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Post by verroq »

avocado4 wrote: post #15

I know a number of Tencent engineers through college and past tech job. There's this game among employees on certain teams - find compromising pics your ex has sent through WeChat messaging, and put them side by side with the screenshot of your ex breaking up with you (as in "who's laughing now"). I don't think this is a political / trade issue, but rather a difference in cultural norms. It strikes me when people out…

Humans being petty and abusing their power for personal revenge has been a global cultural norm for how many millennia?

Re: Behind Grindr's Doomed Hookup in China

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Post by vermilingua »

bottled_poe wrote: post #27
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #10

This data set will be a blackmail goldmine. I'd be shocked if the Chinese government hasn't already mined it for "discreet" users.

Anyone can just claim any image/video is a deep fake.

Guess who wins in a battle of hearsay against the Chinese Government.

Re: Behind Grindr's Doomed Hookup in China

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Post by jorblumesea »

epynonymous wrote: post #25
jorblumesea wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their intentions are pretty obvious. Use that data to identify intelligence sources to blackmail, find potential double agents to recruit, and stop potential infiltration into their own intelligence agencies. It's easy to think of ways to combine all of these hack data streams into one database that can be cross referenced. You go to China on a visa, your entry to the country trips a flag in a system, and an intellig…

i'm trying my absolute hardest to be constructive, but what in the hell are you smoking?

Sorry, have you not been paying attention for the last 10 years?

Re: Behind Grindr's Doomed Hookup in China

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Post by malux85 »

Redoubts wrote: post #13
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #10

This data set will be a blackmail goldmine. I'd be shocked if the Chinese government hasn't already mined it for "discreet" users.

There’s so much throwaway data in there I’d be hard pressed to believe there’s much of value. They don’t even validate the users email beyond “contains @“.

Yeah if you're doing dumb string matching. But they have access to all of the photos as well. So index all of the faces and then query it on the face matches, then pull the rest of the chats and dk pics.

Yes I know that not everybody sends face pics, but the majority do, and this is good enough to harvest for data.

Re: Behind Grindr's Doomed Hookup in China

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Post by nefitty »

epynonymous wrote: post #25
jorblumesea wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their intentions are pretty obvious. Use that data to identify intelligence sources to blackmail, find potential double agents to recruit, and stop potential infiltration into their own intelligence agencies. It's easy to think of ways to combine all of these hack data streams into one database that can be cross referenced. You go to China on a visa, your entry to the country trips a flag in a system, and an intellig…

i'm trying my absolute hardest to be constructive, but what in the hell are you smoking?

This sounds plausible when thought about in the context of cases that are publicly known: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in...
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