Security flaw discovered in Instagram's 'Download Your Data' tool
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- Bangi
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- 19 Feb 2019
Akinaro, 17 Nov 2018Did anyone noticed. app made by small dev team/or person: ... moreapps with smaller teams tend to care more and take their sweet time, apps bought out by big companies tend to make their employes "time crunch" which in turn makes them care more about how long it took not how well it was done.
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- Baykko
- LEi
- 20 Nov 2018
Akinaro, 18 Nov 2018well not exactly, there are lots of app that where popular ... moreHackers and audiences in general will pay more attention to an App when it is taken by a big company. Like Instagram being taken by Facebook. Yes the more resources they have the easiest it should be to protect them but don't underestimate the time, effort and skills those hackers can put into putting their skilsl to test against the big machine that are apps like facebook or google or apple.
The chances of a bug showing up in a population of what? 100 phones? are not the same ones as in a population of 1 million. It doesn't matter how much an OEM test the phone, bugs will always show up after release, what matters is how OEMS respond. Now of course there are some exceptions like The Green screen issue with Mate 20 pros, but it will always happen.
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- Anonymous
- LEi
- 19 Nov 2018
Joker, 19 Nov 2018If robots take all of human jobs then what will you eat? Yo... moreHe would eat food made by robots, of course
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- Realistic1
- 3qE
- 19 Nov 2018
Instagram is now, unfortunatley owned by Facebook.
And we all know how secure Facebook is...
- Joker
- KIA
- 19 Nov 2018
Anonymous, 18 Nov 2018Human errors, that's why all jobs of these sort should be r... moreIf robots take all of human jobs then what will you eat? You can not make a living just sitting.
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- The hitman
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- 19 Nov 2018
That's the only problem: we won't... Even if you train an AI to have a nice, "feeling" personality, and even if it understands stuff like art and sensibility, it will still think against us humans and our primitive minds.
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- Anonymous
- w7n
- 18 Nov 2018
Akinaro, 18 Nov 2018well not exactly, there are lots of app that where popular ... moreHuman errors, that's why all jobs of these sort should be replaced by robots. Let AI be sentient and run everything so we can sit back and enjoy life.
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- 18 Nov 2018
The last Oracle, 18 Nov 2018Ever since Facebook bought it, Instagram has all sorts of i... moreLeft it and others long ago.
- EskeRahn
- s0D
- 18 Nov 2018
So few users left on instagram that instagram call them 'a very small number of people', or ?
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- Akinaro
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- 18 Nov 2018
Baykko, 18 Nov 2018Here is how it works. Small DEV team develops an App, App g... morewell not exactly, there are lots of app that where popular and didnt had security flaws and then after they get bought by big company suddenly they have them. So its not like hackers woke up and start messing with it just because its under big corp wings.
Also we talk here about big corporations that have resources and money to constantly update app and search for security holes.
Its the same with testing device. I have no idea how its possible that company worth billions of dollars cant properly test device before release, so we often have phones that hit the market and in the first day users find bugs on them...
Just go to any XDA custom rom topic of any device, literally 3-4 random testers can find bugs in few days of usage.... So how company test their devices? One person sit in closed room and turn on and off device to see if it work?
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- The last Oracle
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- 18 Nov 2018
Ever since Facebook bought it, Instagram has all sorts of issues.
Maybe people should move on from Instagram too.
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- akashdev
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- 18 Nov 2018
Paul Mendez Rodriga, 17 Nov 2018I dont use instagram because of this reason. Bebo is a lot ... morelol
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- Anonymous
- vxs
- 18 Nov 2018
Baykko, 18 Nov 2018Here is how it works. Small DEV team develops an App, App g... moreright on point
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- Baykko
- LEi
- 18 Nov 2018
Akinaro, 17 Nov 2018Did anyone noticed. app made by small dev team/or person: ... moreHere is how it works. Small DEV team develops an App, App grows in popularity, at some point bigger COPR group buys the app and injects a huge amount of money making the app grow big in little time, the app gets a lot more popular and well known around the world, hackers see the app and make it their game to find loopholes they can exploit, they find them and make them public, the average consumer sees this and goes like "OMG it used be better before", or "all social networks suck, screw this world".
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- 17 Nov 2018
Happy to know you guys noticed my comment yesterday. We are getting closer to my dream article "Facebook has deleted itself".
We just need "WhatsApp all accounts pirated, sends 'Facebook Sucks message to all your contacts" and "Messenger messages your Credit Card to random accounts, 95% are affected".
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- Paul Mendez Rodriga
- Mx@
- 17 Nov 2018
I dont use instagram because of this reason. Bebo is a lot better.
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- Akinaro
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- 17 Nov 2018
Did anyone noticed.
app made by small dev team/or person: have issues but never any major.
app made by small dev team/or person get popular and have lots of users: still have issues but dont have huge related to security.
Now we have
Some big company buy that app or make its own: weird security problems all over the place...
How its possible that almost always small devs team can manage to make good app and keep it optimized and secure, but when big company that have money and resources cant keep its own product secure and up to date with user needs and their security...
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- Anonymous
- Yde
- 17 Nov 2018
Next up: security flaws in WhatsApp