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The Whisper Secret-Sharing App Exposed Locations
This is a big deal:
Whisper, the secret-sharing app that called itself the "safest place on the Internet," left years of users' most intimate confessions exposed on the Web tied to their age, location and other details, raising alarm among cybersecurity researchers that users could have been unmasked or blackmailed.
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The records were viewable on a non-password-protected database open to the public Web. A Post reporter was able to freely browse and search through the records, many of which involved children: A search of users who had listed their age as 15 returned 1.3 million results.
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The exposed records did not include real names but did include a user's stated age, ethnicity, gender, hometown, nickname and any membership in groups,