How dating app Grindr makes it easy to stalk 5 million gay men
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Mobile dating apps have revolutionized the pursuit of love and sex by allowing people not only to find like-minded mates but to identify those who are literally right next door, or even in the same bar, at any given time. That convenience is a double-edge sword, warn researchers. To prove their point, they exploited weaknesses in Grindr, a dating app with more than five million monthly users, to identify users and construct detailed histories of their movements.
The proof-of-concept attack worked because of weaknesses identified five months ago by an anonymous post on Pastebin. …
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