Grindr Is Dealing With Its Own Data Leak And It's 1000 Times Scarier Than What's Going On With Facebook
Source - Two security issues could expose personal data for up to 3 million users of the gay dating app Grindr, according to an NBC OUT report.
In the first, a website letting users log in with their Grindr credentials got wide-ranging access to data that isn’t publicly available. This includes that user’s unread messages, email addresses, deleted photos and real-time location — even if they’ve opted out of publicly sharing the latter.
But the second simply intercepts unencoded location data going from the app to servers, allowing anyone observing that user’s internet traffic to pinpoint their position.
We’ve reached out to Grindr for comment and will add when we hear back.
Two major takeaways from this article. The first is to never sign into an account from a third-party service. It seems obvious but if a website asks for your credentials to anything other than that website, don’t do it. The second is that if you have Grindr, delete it. Delete it right now. I’m not concerned with the fact that my your location isn’t secure, I’m concerned about the messages. Straight readers, imagine the dirtiest conversation you’ve ever had on Tinder. Now times that by a thousand, that’s what Grindr is. The conversations are so foul and so direct that you wouldn’t believe the things people say if I told you. If those messages get out, lives get ruined.
I don’t have Grindr on my phone, but every once in a while, I’ll download it and I always end up regretting it. Maybe it’s because I don’t have abs. After all, abs are internet’s version of gay currency. The more you have the better you do. Or maybe it’s because I don’t like people asking for pictures of my feet. Whatever the case, I’m not a fan.
Equally concerning as the messages is the fact that the photos are at risk of being leaked. Which is one thousand times scarier than the Facebook data leak. Why? Because you don’t upload picture of your cock to Facebook. Not only that, they have access to the pictures that you DELETED. Do you know what it takes to delete a picture off Grindr? Me either, because I’ve been sent stuff that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy and I didn’t delete it. Not because I didn’t want to, because it never crossed my mind. That and it would take an incomprehensibly disgusting photo for me to delete it. So, the fact that those types of photos are retrievable is frightening.
But enough of the negative. Grindr’s not all bad; it’s just as hilarious as it grimy. There are entire Instagrams dedicated to making fun of it.
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Not only that, it’s a great place to go if you want to feel bad about yourself while simultaneously getting off. Which is rare. Hopefully they lock it down before anything happens. I know that I’m in the clear but I’m sure a lot of other people aren’t. And if this blog didn’t quite satisfy your curiosity, download the app and proceed at your risk. Who knows, maybe you’ll find something you like.