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GarrisonPrime | 5 years ago

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this was an intentional back door (...) that Grindr was required to create and let foreign authorities know about in exchange for being allowed to market the app in their country.

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solumos|5 years ago

Assuming that's true, why would they publicly expose the back door as an anonymous API endpoint that's used in a standard flow within the product? Incompetence seems much more likely.

I'm not even sure that would constitute a "back door" - it's more of an "additional front door with no lock whatsoever".

swilliamsio|5 years ago

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

franga2000|5 years ago

Account takeover is a really shitty backdoor...