“I’ve seen so many people I know on the app, it's crazy,” said one user of Tea, which topped the Apple App Store charts this week — shortly before the app was hacked.
Part of these types of things generally seem like a well-intentioned idea, but it’s also so creepy, scammy, and gross. This data won’t stop here by any means, and will be sold or used in a million different even shittier ways. Pretty fucked.
Huh…
Part of these types of things generally seem like a well-intentioned idea, but it’s also so creepy, scammy, and gross. This data won’t stop here by any means, and will be sold or used in a million different even shittier ways. Pretty fucked.
It’s fine, no reason to sell the data, the service was literally just breached!
Don’t these companies know how to properly configure a database? This seemed like it was completely preventable.
Lots of breaches are entirely preventable, but lots of companies don’t like to pay for qualified employees that could prevent them.
They don’t care. It’s not their information and there are no consequences.
Then how would they sell access in a deniable way?