How I was able to track the location of any Tinder user

Re:How I was able to track the location of any Tinder user by tyho on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @05:59PM (#7267169)

Their "fix" will do nothing to prevent location information leaking. Making more accounts and getting more distances will increase the precision just as seeing more satellites increases GPS position. No matter how much noise they add, they will always be vulnerable to this attack in the same way with enough time, even the most subtle timing attack will be exploitable.

There is a way they can fix it properly though. What they need to do is report the actual position of the user, not the position relative to a position you give it. This may seem less secure but if it gave that latitude and longitude to within 3 miles, for example, it would be impossible to locate a user more precise than that.

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Re:How I was able to track the location of any Tinder user by natdempk on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @06:17PM (#7267334)

Idea on top of this: allow a user to pick a landmark or location they want to represent where they are like a university or park, so that its not their actual location being given out, but rather something meaningful near where they usually are from day-to-day.

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Re:How I was able to track the location of any Tinder user by bripeace on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @10:33PM (#7268666)

Yeah they should resolve the location to a geographical name. What value is there in the distance then other than, oh I can walk over to your house for casual sex instead of taking the bus. Oh I see...

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