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“It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself”

sfba.social Sheldon Chang 🇺🇸 (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away. Of course I immediately c...

cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/33742

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cura @beehaw.org

Discovering that your Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning up your location data

TLDR

  • A Bluetooth enabled battery monitor that records car battery voltages. The hardware requires a smartphone for pairing
  • The product collects GPS co-ordinates, cell phone tower data and nearby Wifi beacons
  • Location data is sent over the Internet to servers in Hong Kong and mainland China
  • App store misleads consumers by stating that no personal data is collected or shared. Since the Android app requires location permissions to use the hardware device, users are effectively forced to continuously broadcast their physical location to 3rd parties in order to use the product.

There are no legitimate reason for a car battery monitor application to track it’s user’s location. With over 100,000 downloads on Android alone, this raises significant privacy concerns

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rknuu @beehaw.org
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We tried to book a train ticket and ended up with a 245,000 records data breach

cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/19241

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