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Users from 4chan claim to have discovered an exposed database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase, belonging to the newly popular women’s dating safety app Tea. Users say they are rifling through peoples’ personal data and selfies uploaded to the app, and then posting that data online, according to screenshots, 4chan posts, and code reviewed by 404 Media.

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 61 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Now now, I like to shit on vibecoders too but let’s not pretend this is some new problem.

Idiots leave databases on cloud servers exposed all the time rather than deal with their companies often arcane rules for generating certificates

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where do you think the AI learned it?

Like, I get that competent coders do it too, but now any skiddie with an idea can cosplay as a developer so this is going to be so much more prevelant

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 20 hours ago

That's not new, either.