from the I-didn't-know-you-were-into-that! dept.
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 Wednesday March 18 2020, @04:38PM (8 children)
Confessionals should be soundproof. To prevent background noise being picked up by the hidden microphones.
But then James 5:16 says "confess your sins to each other". And Whisper App is trying to help make sure everyone knows your confessions.
Confession: I break dog treats in half. I then fraudulently and dishonestly pass those halves off as if they were whole treats. (MBAs and Walmart take note, this works on your customers too! They'll never notice!)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @05:31PM (1 child)
> Confessionals should be soundproof.
Sure, but somehow there is always a mic in there...in the movies.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:20PM
The soundproofing is to improve the performance of the hidden mic. Eliminate background noise, street sounds, dogs barking, car horns, automatic weapons fire, etc.
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:58PM
Alternately, as Usher demonstrated, Confessions can be turned into major hit songs.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday March 19 2020, @10:06AM (4 children)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 19 2020, @10:40AM
(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.
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(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.
Account abandoned.
(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.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Kitsune008 on Wednesday March 18 2020, @04:46PM (5 children)
The only secrets that stay secret, are secrets never shared...ever.
I guess that 'Whisper' can rebrand itself to 'Shout Out', and keep on going as it has been. ;-)
(Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday March 18 2020, @04:54PM (3 children)
. . . protected by ROT17 !!!
"The government selected ROT17 because two applications of it will not revert the ciphertext back to plain text.", the senator explained.
"...and furthermore", the senator added, "we chose ROT17 because 17 is a prime number unlike 13."
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @04:56PM (2 children)
I see it's being peddled by republican senators, then, eh...
(Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Wednesday March 18 2020, @05:01PM (1 child)
Dianne Feinstein [cyberscoop.com] is not Republican. So it's not only Republicans.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 19 2020, @02:31AM
Since Harvey Milk and that other guy got assassinated. Go read about her crackdown on marijuana when SF would otherwise have have bee n openly flaunting it (like Berkeley more or less did.) since the 1970s. Instead she's been peddling for the authority complex for 50+ years and nobody has bothered to do their part to take her out of office, instead she's risen to the top, like stink from shit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @05:30PM
Yup, when I do something dumb, I keep it to myself, otherwise she will never let me forget it.
(Note: This assumes that it won't cause knock-on problems for anyone else...)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Wednesday March 18 2020, @05:02PM (6 children)
People telling their darkest secrets to some unknown cloudy social media app? Really?? What next? Self-conscious people going out into the street with their dick out?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 18 2020, @05:18PM (2 children)
Facebook. Twitter. Google. They are known to respect privacy.
It would be too cold to do this in the Canadian city you misspelled in the subject line.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by captain normal on Wednesday March 18 2020, @05:33PM (1 child)
Tonto is a Spanish word for crazy or idiot. It is considered quite an insult to Native Americans, especially after they named the Lone Ranger's sidekick Tonto.
The Musk/Trump interview appears to have been hacked, but not a DDOS hack...more like A Distributed Denial of Reality.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:25PM
I knew of the Lone Ranger usage. I did not know that was also a word with an established meaning. Thanks.
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:27PM (2 children)
So who edited this post? I thought editing of posts was prohibited?
The Musk/Trump interview appears to have been hacked, but not a DDOS hack...more like A Distributed Denial of Reality.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 18 2020, @07:26PM (1 child)
What appears to be edited? The post looks the same to me now as when I first saw it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @07:58PM
Somebody's got a button and is editing/deleting posts. One of mine disappeared a few days ago because I used the word "fuck" in a sentence as an adjective.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @05:49PM (10 children)
I hoarded 160 rolls of toilet paper.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:23PM (3 children)
Amazon still has toilet paper [amazon.com] for sail.
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(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:33PM (2 children)
Sails of toilet paper do not stand up well to what sailors call "weather".
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:42PM
If you need to conserve TP, use the US Marine method...
1- Tear off one square of TP.
2- Poke your left index finger thru the middle.
3- Wipe your butt hole with your left index fingertip.
4- Pull tissue off finger along with the nugget stuck on your fingertip.
5- Don't eat food with your left hand.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 18 2020, @08:19PM
Now he has Yaaar'ds and Yaaaaar'ds of P.P. (Pirate Paper)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:35PM (3 children)
I've got a plunger to sell you when you're ready.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Wednesday March 18 2020, @07:27PM (1 child)
I think he'll want more than one plunger. Need to stock up, for covid-19, you know.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 18 2020, @08:22PM
Shit! That reminds me I gotta buy a tea cozy before the stores run out! Because of cofveve-69, you know!
:)
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2020, @07:54PM
My outhouse toilet doesn't have pipes.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday March 18 2020, @06:59PM (1 child)
I ALWAYS HOARD TOILET PAPER.
Been saying it for years. When the shit finally happens, I will be the king of TP.
My policy in life, since a young adult, has been to have minimum 6 months of TP.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 18 2020, @07:28PM
I think if civilization gets to a point where we need six months of TP, then we've got much bigger problems.
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