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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Tinder hack sets heterosexual men up with each other

If you’re a heterosexual man on Tinder, you should double check that the person you’re chatting to is who you think they are. A computer engineer has discovered that the openness of the app’s API allowed him to set up unknowing men via a fake female profile they both believed that they were talking to, in an elaborate Tinder hack.
An unnamed California computer engineer, unimpressed by the unpleasant advances his female friends were getting on the dating app, was investigating ways to automatically publish the opening flirtations to Twitter, when he realized that the Twitter API had few safeguards to prevent deeper tinkering.


Tinder hack sets heterosexual men up with each other

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