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Confessions app Whisper spills almost a billion records:
Researchers who uncovered a data exposure from mobile app Whisper earlier this week have released more details about the incident.
Whisper is an app from MediaLab, a mobile app company that owns a host of other apps including the popular messaging service Kik. It offers a kind of anonymous social network service that allows people to post their innermost fears and desires, supposedly without risk.
Its users post everything from dark family secrets to stories of infidelity. It gathers these up and uses them for articles on its website, including "Naughty Nannies Confess To Sleeping With The Fathers They Work For", "Alcoholism Runs In My Family", and "I Married The Wrong Person".
The problem, according to researcher Dan Ehrlich of cybersecurity consultancy Twelve Security, is that Whisper didn't steward that data very well. He says that he and his colleague Matthew Porter accessed 900m records in a 5 TB database spanning 75 different servers, logged between the app's release in 2012 and the present day. The data was stored in plain text on ElasticSearch servers and included 90 metadata points per account.
The Washington Post broke the story about the app on Monday 10 March, having worked with the researchers.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 19 2020, @02:02PM (2 children)
The new testament makes it clear that Jesus is the only intermediary (mediator) between God and man.
1 Tim 2:5
Heb 8:6
Heb 12:24
Heb 7:25
Heb 9:15
1 John 2:1-2
And Jesus is the one and only way to God.
Acts 4:12
John 14:6
1 John 5:11-12
Some people value the text above traditions, or the words of any pope.
And some do not.
And some people do not believe at all.
You have to decide for yourself.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday March 19 2020, @10:36PM (1 child)
Matthew 18 says you can bypass the Son to ask directly to the Father, which makes sense.
First because you don't really bypass whom is one with the Father. Second because if the universe were like a dream of yours, the son would be like you in the dream, the father would be you sleeping whose brain is generating the dream. If someone in the dream needs something, it's the Father who is in charge.
This doesn't clash with Jesus being the way, nor makes the traitorous among the consecrated more able to reinvent the law. The consecration is topologically a tree with Christ as root node (which spawns to some protestants, some traditionalists who left the catholics, the orthodox) and the law to follow is His, and the hierarchy SHOULD be an inverted one because it does not reperesent privilege but service. (mohameddan-feet-kissing Bergoglio got this extremely wrong, and that unsettles me, because negating the inverted hierarchy is asserting the pyramidal one).
The Catholics use Mt 18:18 to posit the confession is needed to tie or untie (AKA absolve). The problem IMHO is the context, because, yes the topic in the passage is expressely SIN, but seems like referring to sins with a social/practical fallout, transgression of the law. OTOH one can argue sin has always one who is affected by it, so saying only the sinner gets hurt doesn't make a sin a no-sin. Another problem is fitting mercy in the whole process.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 20 2020, @02:33PM
In the NT, the rise and spread of the early church, and the specific instances we have of salvation do not involve any celibate priests, nor confessionals. The confess your sins to one another verse I mention, seems to be to keep believers accountable to one another. To help each other in struggles with sin. To make each believer aware that they are no more depraved than everyone else.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.