• Tinder prank 'tricked flirting men'
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How the hell is this a security lapse? If you actually understand what's happening that makes no sense.
[QUOTE=geel9;47400619]How the hell is this a security lapse? If you actually understand what's happening that makes no sense.[/QUOTE] Pretty much, it's literally just fake accounts forwarding messages, you could do this by hand with the official app. I'm not sure how you could avoid this to be honest, I mean you could throw in captchas in random places or have people report bots but honestly it's just a shitty thing to do
[QUOTE=geel9;47400619]How the hell is this a security lapse? If you actually understand what's happening that makes no sense.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I can't see a way how to prevent this. And this could be done by anyone on any form of chat service manually. I could start a conversation with two people on steam and just copy paste the replies between them.
[QUOTE=Lord Fear;47400839]Yeah, I can't see a way how to prevent this. And this could be done by anyone on any form of chat service manually. I could start a conversation with two people on steam and just copy paste the replies between them.[/QUOTE] The best they could do is make sure you can't just "like" everyone around you to reduce the efficiency of these things, but even that is barely a stopgap measure. Everything else would just be obfuscation and still fairly easy to circumvent with some know-how.
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