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There's no visible usernames in the app. I'm not sure what good taking over someone's account would do you.
by sssss3333 12y ago
There's no visible usernames in the app. I'm not sure what good taking over someone's account would do you.
- smt88 12y ago1. Hack someone in your office 2. Hack someone in your home (one of your kids for example) 3. Hack someone in a coffee shop Generally, when someone thinks they're anonymous and they aren't, bad things are going to happen.
- tedks 12y agoBy "hack", you mean "discover the userIDs of users launching the app in your {office/home/coffee shop}." But this does not equate to a deanonymization of ANY past posts necessarily. userIDs are generated on app install, so anyone hoping to be anonymous needs only connect via a VPN to avoid a MITM on that particular connection, post the anonymous secret, and re-install the app. Then any further use of the app will not leak that they posted the secret, and in fact the information has been destroyed.
- woah 12y agoAnd I'm sure that's exactly what most users will do.
- kibibu 12y agoDid you not read the part in the article about de-anonymizing user ids?
- DonHopkins 12y agoDelete something they posted about you.