2d ago

Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app

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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.
  
  Starting salary for a cyber security expert is around 70,000€ and that's for someone who's relatively inexperienced so you would probably want to pay more like 90,000€, for these startups that's seven or eight employees worth of salary and they don't want to pay it.
  The problem is it leads to things like this happening which kills their entire company.
  Or they could do what they're doing now which is work with a consultancy company which doesn't cost anywhere near as much money but still costs quite a bit.
  
  Don't worry I'm sure the owner has already pocketed $10m in investor money and is currently parachuting away to plan their next fuckup
  
  Don't these companies know
  No. The answer is always no
  
  Then how would they sell access in a deniable way?
  
  You think a company paddling gossip under the guise of "woman safety" would care about protecting personal information? 🤣
  
  Hahaha, that's hilarious. I've just seen it on /g/ today.
  
  😂
- yeah, well-intentioned things tend to go sour when exposed to the glow of anonymity on the internet. Starts off innocent, and goes downhill fast.
  The creator, Sean, stating that he started this app as a reaction to the online dating scene his mother experienced, seems fine: an anti-catfishing app would be great.
  To give the devil their due, the data they collect might also be valuable as data on how women discuss men online, which at a cursory glance seems to favor far more hyperbole than I see in everyday life.
- Yea I agree with you

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