Yelp-for-MAGAs app maker is warned there are holes in its code. Does it A. Just fix the problem, or B. Threaten to call the FBI, too? A developer specializing in mobile apps for US conservatives is under fire for threatening to call the Feds on someone who reported security shortcomings in its software. On Tuesday, a French infosec bod, going under the Mr Robot-themed pseudonym Elliot Alderson and handle fs0c131y, notified 63red that it had left hard-coded …
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Considering they are solely there to make a smartphone app to show red hat wearing people where to find watering-holes where red hats are welcome, this goes without saying.
Some of us red hat wearing folks are neither American nor particularly interested in overpriced chinese baseball caps attributed to the current PotUS (Pumpkin?). Far more interested in getting our opensource out and avoiding the blues. *cough*
This does seem almost to be the equivalent of one going on vacation and leaving the front door open and upon return shoot the nice neighbor who walked by, closed and locked it. Rather than fixing the problem and saying "thank you" (at a minimum) someone gets their knickers in a twist and rolls out the FBI and will most likely toss a sueball. What a world this has become.
Might you possibly be suggesting that 63red follow so deeply in their Dear Leader's footsteps that they have become thin-skinned and paranoid ignoramuses unable to respond proportionately to even the mildest criticism? No! Tell me it ain't so!
Might you possibly be suggesting that 63red follow so deeply in their Dear Leader's footsteps that they have become thin-skinned and paranoid ignoramuses unable to respond proportionately to even the mildest criticism?
I think it's more a matter of being so deep into someone's rectal cavity that there is an absence of thought-promoting oxygen.
While I don't see it going down too differently if the shoe was on the blue side of the coin it really does make one wonder. What kind of "snowflake" needs a 63red app to know where their "safe spaces" are?
P.S. I hope the responding FBI agent responds with; "Well golly snowflake that's kind of how this stuff works."
Seeing people wearing a MAGA hat makes me always think of the bummer of a birthmark cartoon by Gary Lawson if it weren't for the fact that they tend to be the gun nuts themselves.
Whats even worse is that most commentators here would probably think that is fine.
No, I don't think that's fine. Just as I don't think it's fine that Trump uses his rallies to fire the MAGA hat-wearers up into yelling abuse at the journalists present, or when he denigrates Mexicans or Democrats or immigrants in such a way that he engages in stochastic terrorism with all those "fine Second Amendment people".
How the fuck did we get here?
"Whats even worse is that most commentators here would probably think that is fine."
I'd think not. In general, whatever our personal and political disagreements, I find the commantards are not believers in violence. I'm on the fence about fighting actual fascists, but I'd not thump a republican, conservative or national voter just because we held radically different political views. Especially in a two party system, which is going to always involve some amount of nose holding for the party candidate.
I don't like Trump or his politics, but I don't think he should be harmed as a result of that. That extends to his supporters. Don't even think he should be impeached, pretty sure the wheels of justice will grind him down.
I'm pretty sure that the majority of the GoP don't actually like him either, but he was their guy, he's getting 2-3 picks onto the SCOTUS and can be relied on to put the right white fella in place. He also winds the left up like no-ones business :)
"MAGA hat wearers are regularly attacked or abused."
Any more than anyone wearing an open political declaration?
Not that I approve of attacks, but if you're wearing a political slogan, aren't you asking for a reaction?
But yeah, don't fight each other please. Save that for when the buggers who do want our freedoms come for them.
MAGA hat wearers are regularly attacked or abused
MAGA types, emulating their thin-skinned Dear Leader, are well-known for wallowing in their supposed victimhood, while simultaneously describing anyone they dislike as (presumably-weak) snowflakes. They're good at "dissonance;" "cognitive," well, not so much.
See quoted text, above, for a relevant example.
That's what we call around these parts "Standard Operating Procedure". MAGAs are a paranoid little bunch, very noisy, very abrasive and quite prone to be threatening, if not downright violent.
There's a lot of parallels with the Brexit brigade -- those pushing for a so-called 'hard' Brexit. That's why I refer to this group as the "Make Britain Great Again" people -- both groups are very emotional, passionate about their beliefs and don't seem to have a clue what those beliefs actually are.
Incidentally, Trump sold those hats, I think they cost about $20 each.
"The FBI threat is a threat, I didn’t do anything illegal," he told The Register. "I didn’t break or hack anything. Everything was open."
You may well be perfectly innocent, but you probably shouldn't plan to travel to/through the USA unless you want a particularly prolonged stay. The have form for detaining researchers who embarrass them.
Meh, I think I'd side with the researcher. Even if I realised the person I was trying to help would likely reject it, I'd prefer to at least give them the chance. If they accept it, then my estimation of humanity increases and I get my "good deed" badge for the day. If they don't accept it, I shrug and let them reap what they sow content in the knowledge that I at least tried. Which seems to be exactly what this researcher has done.
Just my 2 cents.
My post was only half-serious, and I appreciate the guy's efforts and hope 63red is just making empty threats, but I think I'd still value my self-preservation over the betterment of humanity.
We are talking about the creator of an app whose audience are known for their paranoia and lack of tolerance, in a country where the first reaction to a perceived aggression is either to shoot you or sue you. I'd probably think twice before contacting them.
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