Re:How we used Tinder to catch the thief robbing startups in SF
by Shinkei on Friday December 19, 2014 @05:51PM
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>a misuse of tinder according to its current usage
So is the supposedly ingenious idea you mentioned of assuming the burglar is a Tinder user and swiping through thousands of people (using bandwidth, making themselves a fake profile, etc.) to find the correct one. They offloaded the work of 1 second per thousands of people, rather than hours onto a single or small group of people... for which there was no guarantee of success and no real 'end.'
I think that their idea was pretty ingenious, especially if they are successful in the end.
So is the supposedly ingenious idea you mentioned of assuming the burglar is a Tinder user and swiping through thousands of people (using bandwidth, making themselves a fake profile, etc.) to find the correct one. They offloaded the work of 1 second per thousands of people, rather than hours onto a single or small group of people... for which there was no guarantee of success and no real 'end.'
I think that their idea was pretty ingenious, especially if they are successful in the end.