FYI - a similar product already exists and was featured on the television show "Shark Tank"
http://sharktankblog.com/personal-security-app-emergensee/
Topic: WithU - Sexual Assault app - Possibly full of holes? Looking for volunteers - page 2. (Read 1035 times)
September 14, 2015, 07:44:26 PM
September 14, 2015, 07:36:36 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86SWunVasNk
Hey guys, I hang out on Reddit ( as you may or may not know already ) and I came across this guy who was posting up an app he was apparently working on himself. It's an app that's supposed to be used in an emergency to make recordings of fights or whatnot if somebody is getting assaulted or abused and it will get your GPS location and transmit it to other nearby users. The thing is though, even as a nice idea and even with my limited knowledge of security I feel like there are way too many holes in it and ways this can be messed with and that's not including the idea of posting up fake recordings to cause hysteria amongst the users.
So I was wondering who I knew that would be able to take a look at this stuff and immediately thought of you lot since you often mess around with this kind of thing, I remember when you were all trying to break 1broker.com. If you're interested it might be a nice thing to do for the guy and I'll link this post to him so he can give you some targets to try and break the app perhaps, let me know what you think of it.
For the record, the original post I'm talking about was put up on the MRA subreddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/3kyxz7/withu_better_than_good2go_and_weconsent/cv1pwsg?context=3
Hey guys, I hang out on Reddit ( as you may or may not know already ) and I came across this guy who was posting up an app he was apparently working on himself. It's an app that's supposed to be used in an emergency to make recordings of fights or whatnot if somebody is getting assaulted or abused and it will get your GPS location and transmit it to other nearby users. The thing is though, even as a nice idea and even with my limited knowledge of security I feel like there are way too many holes in it and ways this can be messed with and that's not including the idea of posting up fake recordings to cause hysteria amongst the users.
So I was wondering who I knew that would be able to take a look at this stuff and immediately thought of you lot since you often mess around with this kind of thing, I remember when you were all trying to break 1broker.com. If you're interested it might be a nice thing to do for the guy and I'll link this post to him so he can give you some targets to try and break the app perhaps, let me know what you think of it.
For the record, the original post I'm talking about was put up on the MRA subreddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/3kyxz7/withu_better_than_good2go_and_weconsent/cv1pwsg?context=3
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