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evacideHere's @zackwhittaker.com giving a breakdown on how he found users' PII, including photos of government-issued IDs, on Tea copycat app TeaOnHer.
"We...asked Lampkin if any security reviews were carried out before the TeaOnHer app was launched, but we got no reply."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/13/how-we-found-teaonher-spilling-users-drivers-licenses-in-less-than-10-minutes/
evacideIt is sometimes necessary, in these difficult times, to spend an hour scrolling through clothing sites, hoping that one of these gowns is going to give you the strength to fight fascism.
evacideEven when I don't go to Vegas, the Vegas gossip comes to me.
evacideIt turns out that the kind of people who write and launch an app in less than two weeks are not the kind of people who feel the need to implement secure coding practices and strong privacy protections for the sensitive user data they ask you to upload.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/a-rival-tea-app-for-men-is-leaking-its-users-personal-data-and-drivers-licenses/
evacideWho could have possibly predicted this extremely likely outcome?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/a-rival-tea-app-for-men-is-leaking-its-users-personal-data-and-drivers-licenses/
evacideRon Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/citizen-lab-director-warns-cyber-industry-about-us-authoritarian-descent/
evacideI'm sorry I will have to miss this meeting because the cat has fallen asleep with his head on my shoulder and is making little snoring sounds.
evacideListen, we are in a terrible and difficult time where the horrors can often feel overwhelming. Lean into the things that bring you joy. If that means that sometimes you're wringing that last drop of dopamine out of watching bad people suffer as the result of their poor choices, you do you.
evacidePrivacy for me but not for thee: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/senators-homes-travel-info-remove-internet-1235397818/
evacideAnother day, another conversation with the press team where I explain that I did not give the quote in that story and the whole thing is AI slop. This happens once every few weeks now.