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同性恋交友应用真的安全吗?研究人员的发现让人有些失望

几天前,我提醒我的妻子我所做的实验完全与性无关,免得她偷瞄我的手机。之后我安装了同性恋交友应用Grindr。我把头像设为一只猫,并且关掉了应用上的“显示距离”选项,这样做能隐藏我的位置。一分钟之后,我打电话给Nguyen Phong Hoang(日本京都的一名安全研究人员),我告诉了他我在布鲁克林的大体位置。对于我附近想要约会或是寻求艳遇的男人,我的猫脸照片都会出现在其手机应用上。

Renewed Concerns about Privacy on Grindr, Hornet, and Similar Gay Hookup Apps

After claims that Egyptian police used gay hook-up apps to track down gay people and arrest them in 2014 (penalty for same-sex sexual activity in Egypt can lead to imprisonment for up to 17 years), Grindr, the mother of all sex hookup apps, took …

Is Your Location Really Private on Grindr? Not Quite...

If someone is truly determined, they can pinpoint where you are by comparing your proximity to fake accounts. Researchers at Japan's Kyoto University have found that the relative anonymity of some dating apps is fairly easy to bypass. Or, at least, …

Same-Sex Dating App Gives Away Your Exact Location, Even When You Tell It Not To

Three researchers from the Kyoto University in Japan have discovered that three of the most popular same-sex dating apps today are disclosing the user's geographical location, even if they have turned off this feature in the app's settings. Called …

Your Neighbors Are My Spies: Location and other Privacy Concerns in GLBT-focused Location-based Dating Applications

Trilateration is one of the well-known threat models to the user's location privacy in location-based apps; especially those contain highly sensitive information such as dating apps. The threat model mainly bases on the publicly shown distance from a …