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by marinosbern 6y ago
> I've installed dozens of life-safety-critical services and none of them had ads or the Facebook SDK Can you give a few examples? > none of them had ads The comment was about the Facebook SDK being used for ad attribution ,
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by marinosbern 6y ago
While Spotify crashing on launch may be a nuisance, this also affects life-critical apps crashing on launch. Our forensic analysis [1] found that half of the top 21 iOS safety apps send data to Facebook, and last time this happened back in
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by marinosbern 6y ago
Done! Thanks so much for suggesting!
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by marinosbern 6y ago
Here you go — findings for LiveSafe: Branch, Crashlytics, DoubleClick, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager Our understanding is that it's an enterprise app not available to consumers, which is why we did not list its findings in the r
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by marinosbern 6y ago
Thanks so much for taking the time to look at this. I absolutely understand your concerns and I would be equally skeptical if I was reading this. Ultimately, anyone is free to repeat this analysis independently and see for themselves. Every
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Forensic Investigation – The Shocking State of Privacy in Safety Apps(parachute.live)
71 points by marinosbern 6y ago|13 comments
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by marinosbern 6y ago
Hi HN! I'm Marinos, engineer and Parachute founder We originally developed Checkup as a way for changemakers around the world to alert their colleagues and loved ones in case they suddenly "go missing". However, we realized t
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Show HN: Checkup – Daily safety checks during Covid-19(parachute.live)
2 points by marinosbern 6y ago|1 comments
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by marinosbern 7y ago
I've had an office/desk at WeWork in NYC since 2014 (although I almost never use it any more). It's been interesting to see WeWork's evolution through the years. At the beginning, there was a lot of emphasis on community
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by marinosbern 7y ago
I started Parachute [1] by accident when I won the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 Hackathon with its first prototype. I dropped everything else I was doing and launched it right here on HN a few months after that [2]. Today it's a healthy
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by marinosbern 10y ago
Parachute | Engineer | New York or Remote | Full Time, Part Time, Visa | https://parachute.live Parachute is building the future of emergency management. The Parachute app livestreams your location, audio and video to your frien
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by marinosbern 10y ago
Hi HN! I'm Marinos, I made this. To give you a little bit of background, soon after launching Witness [1], I started hearing from a diverse set of organizations who saw Witness as having the potential to be extremely impactful in their
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Parachute platform: Emergency management with live video, audio and location(parachute.live)
7 points by marinosbern 10y ago|1 comments
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by marinosbern 11y ago
Witness | getwitness.com | Engineer #2 | New York | Full Time, Visa Witness lets you broadcast your location, audio and video to your friends and loved ones with one touch. I made Witness at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 Hackathon and it e
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by marinosbern 11y ago
:) I was lucky enough to work for a great company [1] that was very techy so in terms of the culture it wasn't much of a transition. The hardest part (which I am still working on) is developing for anyone out there instead of internal
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by marinosbern 11y ago
I'll check it out, thanks for recommending
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by marinosbern 11y ago
Interesting. Have you been asked that before? I've done a fair amount of going in and out of the country and was never asked
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by marinosbern 11y ago
Thanks! The functionality does not depend on the person's friends joining the app
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by marinosbern 11y ago
I think this goes without saying, but absolutely not. Data will never be available to anyone in any way, shape or form, except people chosen by you. I am adding this to the website now.
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by marinosbern 11y ago
My experience was exactly the same. The record button on the camera app is small and hard to hit if you're running/your hands are shaky. Also if you touch the screen while recording it changes the focus and you could also accident
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by marinosbern 11y ago
You've hit the nail right on the head. A 2-stage process (1-record 2-notify) is definitely the number one feature request. For this version, I wanted to keep things super simple and get it out there as soon as possible so I can start g
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by marinosbern 11y ago
Yes, I'm already working on an Android version and an Apple Watch version. I'm really excited about the new Apple watch which is rumored to have a camera because it seems like the perfect medium for Witness to run on
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by marinosbern 11y ago
Unfortunately not - I picked the name at 4am at the Disrupt hackathon and, at that point, name collisions were the least of my worries. In fact, there's a ton of apps in the App Store with Witness in them. After it won the hackathon th
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by marinosbern 11y ago
Yes, I have heard about this as well. A bunch of people from India have emailed me about using Witness there and some have already been field-testing it. This version does work in India, with full calling/texting support, but I definit
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by marinosbern 11y ago
I actually asked a bunch of psychologists about this. Most people will either freeze or run. If your inbuilt reaction is to run, you are already in the lucky group. The goal is to use it, if possible, while running, so I tried to make it as
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by marinosbern 11y ago
If there's no cell network it will store everything locally (status bar turns purple) until the cell network comes back up. This happens automatically and I'm already working on making it more explicit in future versions
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by marinosbern 11y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. The original thinking was twofold: 1) I didn't want people to get in trouble if their phones were searched and they were in possession of a recording and 2) Keep the data stored on the phone to a minimum,
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by marinosbern 11y ago
It will store everything on the device until the Internet is back up, then it will resume the stream. If it never comes back up, it will keep storing on the device until battery/storage runs out. It is designed to never lose data unles
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by marinosbern 11y ago
I'm just one guy, not really a company:) But definitely agree with you, and, in fact, Witness itself is made possible thanks, in part, to a bunch of open source projects
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by marinosbern 11y ago
I am so sorry for that, I picked the name Witness at 4am during a hackathon and had no idea it would win. It was an unfortunate choice of name, especially given that there are a ton of apps in the App Store with "Witness" in them

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