Thanks for looking out for us. However, I, too, am a bit concerned. This is how Facebook started. The tech industry has zero ethics. I recommend women, AND men, have a trusted safety buddy when dating. When I met my spouse, I had two people who knew where I was, the person's name, photo, employer, and where we were meeting.Do some internet stalking. If I don't call you in an hour, come looking for me. If I call, I might ask for another hour, but you get the point.

I am not sure, but I read somewhere that the developer(s) used vibe coding to create the app so...

I agree. High standards and common ideas of "right" are generally present among people insecure and easily gaslighted.

Such as those that would use this app. Point?

How dare you!
The misogyny!

“waaa somebody wants to solve a problem that has never affected me I’m the victim”

Everyone has the problem that they'd want to discuss others behind their back. It's not accepted because it doesn't work to any good end.

“omg what if people talk behind my back they might find out I’m an asshole? literally 1984”

You won't find out anything from this. People sometimes lie, especially in such situations.

but if an article about cybersecurity gets posted and this is our first reaction, makes me lose hope in Lemmy.

Human adequacy is a big part of cybersecurity.

i wonder if there’s the potential for a different app with more encryption and a way to prevent doxxing and abuse.

Encryption, sure.
Preventing doxxing? I highly doubt it. But hey, it's women doing it so it's ok and anyone who criticizes that is an incel.

i mean...an app directly copying a black mirror episode (but almost exclusively targeting a specific demographic) does ring some very, VERY loud alarm bells...

like, this is literally the plot of nosedive.

it's a social credit system.

and none of the people even know they HAVE a score, so it's somehow even worse than the fictional scenario.

this will, absolutely, hurt innocents and it will do so by design.

"fuck them innocents!"...just because they happen to be men?

how is that anything other than misandrist?

how is that defensible?

how is doxxing, mass libel, and targeted harassment a solution to sexism and rape culture?

I'd be really interested in hearing anything about how this is supposed to help women, because i struggle to see how sowing massive, unearned distrust between men and women is going to make anyone any safer...

I'm really, REALLY glad that the GDPR would nuke this sort of nonsense from orbit...uploading pictures of strangers, for the explicit purpose of gossiping about them behind their backs, spreading awful rumors?

what. the. actual. fuck. is wrong with you people?

and i don't mean women, or men: i mean americans and their total disregard for privacy and digital safety. what the hell...

it’s up to the person being reported on to prove the accusations are false.

The person doesn't even know they're mentioned in the app.

You make a valid point, this platform absolutely shits on anyone without technical knowledge, just look at the hundred or so smug replies telling you what flavor of Linux they run if you mention a problem with Windows. So, no surprise everyone is focusing on that, and not the human aspect here.

Having said that, there is a power imbalance to this that I really don't like, the accuser gets to hide behind a veil of anonymity, and the accused has their name published, and is forced to defend themselves.

Which is even worse, because unless someone tells them, they're blissfully unaware.

With most forms of Libel, at least the victim will see it in a timely manner.

So, no surprise everyone is focusing on that, and not the human aspect here.

This is a technology community and the article is specifically about a security breach that exposed massive amounts of sensitive user data.

I'm sorry but I'll just say it out right: new feminists are the absolute worst

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for equality where possible. Where isn't equality possible? Well I'd like to conceive a child, but the plumbing isn't exactly useful for that. That sort of thing. Beyond that, were all the same, and IDGAF about your skin color, sexual preferences or whatever. I live by live and Let live, don't be an asshole, it's not that hard to be respectful

New feminists though are the ones coming up with ideas like this website. On the surface, anyone could say that it's not a bad thing to have a place for women to talk about how to protect themselves. In reality though, it's a place where men, innocent or not, get doxxed and made to be rapists.

There are some subs here on Lemmy as well that were very sad to see this shitshow of a website go, lamenting the fact that now they need a different place to dex people. Try not to tell them that doxxing is bad, it gets you banned.

Lots of men in this thread real upset about this app pointing out how the majority men are shit

Defaming people without giving them a chance to defend themselves, talk about shit people...

wha? i didn't say anything about incels. or that doxxing is ok.

uh hello! ok? not sure what your fetishes have to do with the conversation that was taking place. maybe you're from the UK and you're missing porn?

But I wish you the best of luck in your search for whatever porn you like.

It's a little more complex than that. If you want the app on the user device to be able to dump data directly into your online database, you have to give it access in some way. Encrypting the transmission doesn't do much if every app installation contains access credentials that can be extracted or sniffed.

Obviously there are ways around this too, but it's not just "use TLS".

I mean, yes, but does that take priority over women who are worried about their safety? There's been women doing this over local Facebook groups for a long time. Defamation of this sort is not a new issue.

Encrypting the transmission doesn't do much if every app installation contains access credentials that can be extracted or sniffed.

Encrypt the credentials then? Or OAUTH pipeline, perhaps? Automated temporary private key generation for each upload (that sounds unrealistic, to be fair)? Can credentialing be used for intermediary storage that encrypts the data on that server and then decrypted on the database host?

Clearly my utter "noobishness" is showing, but at least it's triggering a slight urge to casually peruse modern WebSec production workflows. I am a DNN researcher. Thus, I am far removed from customer-facing production environments, and it shows.

Any recommendations on literature or articles on how engineers solve these problems in a "best practices" way that you can recommend? I suppose I could just look it up, but I thought I'd ask.

Edit: I don't know why I'm down-voted. My questions were sincere.

It's an antisocial surveillance system for antisocial people, and creates a(n even more) antagonistic relationship between men and women.

Dating apps have been a disaster for dating, and this is perhaps the worst among them.