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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2019, 08:49 AM Mar 2019

'Yelp for Conservatives' Pulled From App Store Over Security Flaws

An app promoted as “Yelp for conservatives”—to help people find Trump-friendly businesses—been pulled from app stores following allegations that security flaws in it exposed users’ personal information. 63red Safe allowed conservatives to review businesses and restaurants, with its Google Play description previously claiming that it helped conservatives “insure [sic] you’re safe when you shop and eat.” App founder and lifelong Republican Scott Wallace previously told The Daily Beast it was for Trump-supporters to find friendly places to eat and compared it to a political “fire inspector.” However, a French security researcher started a Twitter thread Monday detailing the ways in which the app exposed private user data. The app team reportedly called the FBI when the researcher exposed its security flaws. San Francisco Gate reports the 63red Safe app has since been taken down from the Apple and Google Play stores, with a promise that it is “Coming (back) soon!”

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'Yelp for Conservatives' Pulled From App Store Over Security Flaws (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2019 OP

"Safe when you shop and eat"... from WHAT? trotsky Mar 2019 #1

I read that twitter thread the other night blogslut Mar 2019 #2

Open-Source Software--You get what you pay for. Almost all not reviewed, and many done by hackers. TheBlackAdder Mar 2019 #7

Gee, deliberately ignorant trumpers build a site for themselves that exposes their information. lark Mar 2019 #3

Shocked, SHOCKED, etc. JHB Mar 2019 #4

Here you go. area51 Mar 2019 #5

Thank ye'kindly JHB Mar 2019 #6

trotsky

(49,533 posts)

1. "Safe when you shop and eat"... from WHAT?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 08:53 AM

Mar 2019

Good grief, and they call US snowflakes.

blogslut

(38,002 posts)

2. I read that twitter thread the other night

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 09:14 AM

Mar 2019

The app creator built an unsecure product and now he's trying to paint himself as a victim of ev4l hax0rs. LOL

TheBlackAdder

(28,208 posts)

7. Open-Source Software--You get what you pay for. Almost all not reviewed, and many done by hackers.

Reply to blogslut (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 12:48 PM

Mar 2019

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There's a fallacy that open-source software is more secure because it is reviewed by others.

In reality, no one really reviews it besides academia, nation states and hackers. They do not have to disassemble the code because the source is given to them to exploit. On top of that, many of the open-source groups are infiltrated with hackers and nation state developers to inject rogue code or malware.

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lark

(23,105 posts)

3. Gee, deliberately ignorant trumpers build a site for themselves that exposes their information.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 11:29 AM

Mar 2019

Who could have seen that coming? What morans they all are, trying to do tech stuff without the knowledge or science needed. Stupidity has a color and it's baby sick orange.