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by dreyfan 1755 days ago
So the exact same triangulation vulnerability exposed and subsequently fixed in every dating app? How is this not Step #2 after “Build a dating app that Match Group will eventually acquire”
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Not just dating apps, but really _any_ app with location based chat. Telegram hit the top page of HN a few months ago with a similar vulnerability[0]. There's other apps that sell this as a feature! Snapchat does this and you can see people down to the exact corner of the street they're standing on. Ads (used to) allow you to do it too[1]

[0] https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/01/05/telegrams-people-ne...

[1] http://adint.cs.washington.edu/ADINT.pdf

Interestingly, another researcher reported this exact same issue (being able to triangulate a user's location) last year: https://blog.securityevaluators.com/reverse-engineering-bumb...