Users from 4chan claim to have discovered an exposed database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase, belonging to the newly popular women’s dating safety app Tea. Users say they are rifling through peoples’ personal data and selfies uploaded to the app, and then posting that data online, according to screenshots, 4chan posts, and code reviewed by 404 Media.
Damn, do you think this link I found that has a ton of women’s drivers licenses is supposed to be public? Better share it to 4chan. They’ll know what to do.
So it’s just about the drivers licenses? We should make a law to ban sharing drivers licenses? Or is it posting to 4chan that should be illegal?
What do you believe should be the law here? You just keep arguing this specific case should be illegal, but based on what? Which specific part?
When did this ever become about what laws should be? There already are laws for this. How are you so obtuse? They doxxed thousands of women. I can’t stress that enough. They doxxed thousands of women and you’re defending them.
Not legally, no they didn’t. Tea did. Under current laws, they have no obligation to report this or to not tell other people about it.
Seems the issue is you don’t understand how laws work.
No need to be condescending. The current laws about hacking in America are actually much more strict than they should be and can be used to punish people who actually do just stumble on things they shouldn’t have access to as well as people who are ethical whistle blowers. So no, it seems you don’t “how laws work.”
But I don’t believe those laws should be used to go after people who make mistakes or report problems in good faith. These folks didn’t make an innocent mistake and weren’t acting in good faith.