A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating (www.404media.co)
from sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org on 28 Jul 2025 18:17
https://lazysoci.al/post/31110568

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PonyOfWar@pawb.social on 28 Jul 2025 18:33 next collapse

I hope nobody will trust them with their data after this. Just leaving their databases open to the public is horrendous. Though I fully expect this kind of stuff to happen way more often over the next few years, with the rise of “vibe coding”.

Sneptaur@pawb.social on 28 Jul 2025 18:55 next collapse

Mister president, a second data breach has hit the shit-talking app

thoon@feddit.nl on 28 Jul 2025 19:35 next collapse

Truly disgusting app

Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz on 28 Jul 2025 20:30 collapse

Its a glorified misandrous burn book.

theangriestbird@beehaw.org on 28 Jul 2025 20:13 next collapse

I feel like we just straight up cannot trust corporate apps with our data. Time to go back to signal groups like the rest of us, ig.

Powderhorn@beehaw.org on 29 Jul 2025 00:49 collapse

I use encrypted apps with some regularity, but for now, I’m not too concerned about inert conversation being plaintext.

LilB0kChoy@piefed.social on 28 Jul 2025 20:34 next collapse

Paywalled.

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Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 28 Jul 2025 20:41 next collapse

Imagine if men made an app like this

MagicShel@lemmy.zip on 28 Jul 2025 21:15 next collapse

Go on?

It would be a combination of InternetToughGuy, ThatHappened, and a bathroom stall?

It would be used for “no homo” meetups?

It would herald an era of men sharing their feelings?

It would be covered with porn and axel grease and sound like a Harley with a rough idle?

I have no idea where you are going with this.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 28 Jul 2025 22:16 collapse

“bathroom stall” would be a great name

shishka_b0b@lemmy.zip on 28 Jul 2025 21:47 next collapse

Imagine if men had an actual need for an app like this

Randomgal@lemmy.ca on 28 Jul 2025 21:51 next collapse

You mean like Facebook originally was?

Outwit1294@lemmy.today on 28 Jul 2025 22:15 next collapse

The ethical aspect of this would be made a far greater deal than this app faces.

t3rmit3@beehaw.org on 28 Jul 2025 22:17 next collapse

You mean, like this very app?

Founder Sean Cook launched Tea after witnessing his mother’s terrifying experience with online dating

www.teaforwomen.com/about

CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org on 29 Jul 2025 09:43 collapse

An app where men protect each other from women who are emotionally and physically unsafe? I don’t see the problem.

socialsecurity@piefed.social on 31 Jul 2025 18:29 collapse

That's not what this app was...

Powderhorn@beehaw.org on 28 Jul 2025 20:48 next collapse

For all the spilling they’re doing, this is some of the most spot-on branding I’ve seen.

MagicShel@lemmy.zip on 28 Jul 2025 21:07 next collapse

I feel like this would be unconscionable if it was only employees with access to everything unencrypted. To just leave all this stuff open to the world is beyond the pale.

irvinefantasyno@beehaw.org on 28 Jul 2025 21:32 next collapse

Men mad that the app exists are part of the problem.

Non-men are still gonna talk shit and warn about ya, so die mad about it I guess.

JakobFel@retrolemmy.com on 29 Jul 2025 01:04 collapse

Yeah, imagine men being angry that raging feminists had an app which allowed them to dox any man they want and ruin that man’s reputation (and life).

Them darneded men!

[deleted] on 29 Jul 2025 05:04 next collapse

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Saleh@feddit.org on 29 Jul 2025 05:37 next collapse

When i was in highschool there was a popular “gossip” website. Even though i never heard about it, until the school urged parents to take their children off of it, it apparently was used for severe cyberbullying that devastated some students.

[deleted] on 29 Jul 2025 06:09 collapse

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Saleh@feddit.org on 29 Jul 2025 06:33 next collapse

If you think bullying stops after high school, i have bad news for you.

ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org on 29 Jul 2025 10:51 collapse

High school very much is real life for kids.

icelimit@lemmy.ml on 29 Jul 2025 07:33 collapse

The app isn’t exclusive, any person (women, for the most part) have the ability to join said app. Your definition of (not) ‘public’ is shaky at best. Even then, humiliating someone without their knowledge behind closed doors is not cool even in the best of circumstances.

apotheotic@beehaw.org on 29 Jul 2025 07:50 next collapse

You can tell a lot about a person by whether they think the word “feminist” is a negative or a positive

BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip on 29 Jul 2025 12:47 next collapse

Feminism - good

App dedicated to talking shit about people - bad

Seems straightforward.

apotheotic@beehaw.org on 29 Jul 2025 14:12 collapse

You’d think so but Jakob made it about Feminist Bad so at least some people are tripping up on it

JakobFel@retrolemmy.com on 30 Jul 2025 02:32 collapse

Notice I didn’t specify “all feminists” here but you assumed I meant all.

Says more about that movement than you realize.

apotheotic@beehaw.org on 30 Jul 2025 08:25 collapse

And so you decided to leave a comment which made your views on the movement as a whole very clear, enforcing the assumption I made

Thanks!

JakobFel@retrolemmy.com on 31 Jul 2025 01:18 collapse

I have zero shame in saying that I hate almost nothing more than I hate feminism, but like I said, you spoke volumes about your movement by automatically jumping to that conclusion.

apotheotic@beehaw.org on 31 Jul 2025 08:11 collapse

You truly think it says more about my assumption than it says about the subtext that bleeds through in your words?

irvinefantasyno@beehaw.org on 29 Jul 2025 10:58 collapse

Damn, shut up, clown.

TehPers@beehaw.org on 29 Jul 2025 05:35 collapse

Am I missing something here? The article talks only about how user data was exposed, including the data on men being discussed in private messages. I don’t see any mention about any of what’s being discussed in these comments.

I get that there’s probably some talking behind backs or whatever going on in the app, but both criticism and defense of it seems completely irrelevant to the article in question.

If anything, the article goes to show just how wide of an impact the breach has. It not only is a violation of the users privacy (again), but also of personal information of non-users, including relationship history and sexual preferences of both the women on the app and the men they’re discussing.