It appears that the privacy and the vulnerabilities of theapplications are at their peak. At least in terms of the media aspect. And it is that cases of social tools that leave in view of the most curious personal information or details that are supposed privados Now it is known the case of the application Tinder, known for being one of the most famous when it comes to flirting.A problem that would have exposed the real position of its users for months Of course, a problem that has already been solved
This application is based on the user's location to present you with photos of other users nearby of your current position. Always without showing what that exact point is. So you just have to evaluate the images positively or negatively according to the attraction. If the positive votes match between two users the application puts them in contact directly to chat From again, always protecting your location data. Or so it was believed.
Apparently a bug in Android and iOSwould have made it possible since July of last year to collect the data of latitude and longitude of users who were a few meters from the user.Data that using triangulation would present the exact point where they were when using Tinder Of course For this, it was necessary to obtain that data. However, it is an almost scary question when it is related to the realm of dating.
This issue was discovered by a security expert at Inside Security named Max Veytsman last October. A person knowledgeable enough to scrutinize the vulnerability in API (Application Builder Tool) of Tinder and take advantage of them. So much so that he created his own web application to demonstrate this bug and whose operation he explains in a video that we publish below. A way to find the exact position of those people who are looking for someone special through the application.
However, and despite the fact that those responsible for Tinder it seems that they did not respond with total assiduity to complaints that Veytsman sent them by email, finally they corrected said vulnerability according to their security advice. Or at least, according to the expert, since last January 1, it is no longer possible to use your application or discover the data of geolocation of other users ofTinder So users shouldn't be totally alarmed.
And it is that if no abuse has already been suffered, it is difficult that, at least through the same process, it will occur now. Therefore, Tinder continues to be a flirting tool in which users do not know their real current situation , just that they are nearby. Although for a few months this could have happened not precisely by chance
