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After bans from Apple and Google, Sarahah debuts Enoff, an iOS app for anonymous feedback at work
Sarahah, the anonymous messaging app founded in Saudi Arabia that became an unexpected viral sensation with teens, clocking up over 300 million registered users before getting banned by Apple and Google over bullying, is making a return to the App Store — but not as you might think.
The startup has launched a new, free iOS app called Enoff (pronounced "enough") aimed at organizations, tapping into the wave of employee activism and speaking out about unfair practices to provide a way for people in a team to give anonymous, one-way feedback to bosses and human resources reps. An Android version of Enoff is coming "very soon," according to CEO and founder Zain al-Alabdin Tawfiq.
Available also on the web, the aim is to provide a way to give feedback in cases of harassment, corruption and other tricky workplace situations where employees might fear repercussions for speaking out.
Easy way to monetize app: allow bosses to pay to unmask users.
Also at Wired.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @07:02AM (3 children)
Gee, I hope my employwers at Boston General Dynamics cannot trace my troll posts at soylent news to my actual identity as Joe Smolinki, at the San Diego Plant, who has been called up multiple times for "insentitive" remarks. Godspeed, Ethanol_Fueled, and may you end up in the precise hell you deserve.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @09:06AM (2 children)
No, this is not the Ethanol_Fueled you are looking for, since ethanol is haram in Saudi Arabia, and all good Muslin countries.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @10:28PM
"...ethanol is haram in Saudi Arabia, and all good Muslin countries."
What about wool and polyester countries? Is he Haram there, as well? Just asking.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @05:49AM
There's at least one good one? Name it!
I thought they were all evil. They do worship Satan, so how can they be "good"?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @07:20AM (1 child)
Can we nuke the place now?
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @09:08AM
Nukes seem a bit extreme, but we could have had a nice aristarchus submission. Maybe.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Saturday February 02 2019, @09:47AM (7 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @01:44PM (3 children)
How do you load software onto your mobile computing device?
Encode the program in 1's and 0's directly onto the SD card with a magnet?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday February 02 2019, @02:32PM (1 child)
well technically you can download an apk for android. Of course getting the apk for the app might be easy or impossible.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday February 02 2019, @03:35PM
I can understand why google felt they had to try it, what I can't understand is why consumers let them do it. Now microsoft is trying the same thing (Windows S) and again, insane as it is, it looks like they'll get away with it.
Mabye people are just too stupid to have computers.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday February 02 2019, @03:31PM
Well I'd probably run the program through a cross-compiler and produce a blob first, then use the magnets in my reader to encode the 1s and 0s onto the SD card, but yeah, that's roughly how it works.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday February 02 2019, @04:05PM
What's not to your liking with F-Droid [f-droid.org] that isn't addressed in Aptoide [github.com]?
compiling...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @05:03PM (1 child)
Agreed. I jailbroke my phone and install APKs manually. Though it is a bit of a challenge to ensure that I get clean versions of apps.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @05:21AM
Fine, but where do you get them from such that you trust the source?
The Nord VPN android app [nordvpn.com] can be downloaded from their Android download page with a link to the apk [onelink.me] through "go.onelink.me" whatever that is..
Is there a database somewhere for apk files? e.g.
* K9 Mail
* Firefox Browser (android)
* AdBlocker browser
* Colornote
* Duckduckgo browser
* Ghostery browser
* Sliepnir
* 3G watchdog
* Ghost commander
Etc etc.
All the apps you'd normally get from the google store.
It's nice that OpenVPN for Android [github.com] is on Github.
Right now after I format I load Google Store with all of the crappy nasty device sucking services that come with it, get the apps that I want, and then disable all of the Google from my device.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @10:38AM (1 child)
Snailmail letters banned! Linked to bullying and blackmail!
How could the postal service have been allowed to operate a service which permits such hareful acts for so long! Stand up and demand we ban snailmail today!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @01:06PM
After an exhaustive investigation we have determined that the original offenders used "stamps" to entice the postal service to deliver the items in question. Those bastards!
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @10:44AM (1 child)
--- Wikipedia
This isn't a privacy respecting app, it just wears privacy as marketing. While it's tempting to account good those privacy-flavoured services which attract the ire of censorious fools, their increased aggression to any form of privacy leads them to attack even half-arsed privacy now.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Arik on Saturday February 02 2019, @11:09AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Saturday February 02 2019, @02:39PM (2 children)
Minihowto: send anonymous threats er.. feedback using a smartphone:
1. find used IP68 hardened phone
2. tie tightly scrap of paper with feedback to phone
3. launch phone through the windows of the target's sleeping quarters
Account abandoned.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @12:00AM (1 child)
What if the target's sleeping quarters are running linux or BSD?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday February 04 2019, @10:24AM
Then he's a friend and you shouldn't be bothering him/her/it
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday February 02 2019, @09:48PM (1 child)
I had a whole bunch of different nicks at Kuro5hin.
All but just two or three they instantly spotted my writing style.
In other news, snow might come to Vancouver and Portland, see. I Am Absolutely Serious.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @12:39AM
That means you weren't trying hard enough.