What is the Tea hack?
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An app called Tea™ was marketed as a safespace for women and used government issued IDs as a way to verify users.
4Chan users leaked all of the IDs onto the larger internet.
Wow what a fuckin shitshow. I have so many follow-up questions
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These people should serve jail time. I'm not kidding.
I'm no lawyer, but this seems like at least grounds for a class action lawsuit, I would think. Like, it seems like privacy and security is implied (however ironic for an app like this) when requiring users to upload their PII.
Also, I assume their privacy policy didn't mention that they were just gonna publish their users' PII.
At this point I think the women using it got psyopped
Securing the db is more of an ops thing.
who'd have thought that javascript and client side programming was incredibly susceptible to security flaws and deeply unsafe
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