{"id":35411,"date":"2018-09-25T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/?p=35411"},"modified":"2018-09-13T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T23:09:14","slug":"fetish-app-whiplr-sparks-controversy-with-privacy-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/fetish-app-whiplr-sparks-controversy-with-privacy-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetish App Whiplr Sparks Controversy With Privacy Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"5942090561_8656911f4b_z\"<\/a>A popular fetish app has been called out for being very very bad\u2014not in a good way. Whiplr, which bills itself as the \u201cworld’s biggest online fetish community,\u201d was found to be storing users’ passwords in plain text<\/a>. It stores unmasked user credentials in its internal database, which leaves them wide open to hackers.<\/p>\n

The news is very distressing to kinksters, considering that many Whiplr users choose to remain anonymous. After the flaw was pointed out, Whiplr said it would implement greater security measures to protect users’ credentials, saying \u201cWe took steps to make sure this never happens again.\u201d Whiplr says it has now secured passwords with one-way encryption and will be \u201cadding more security measures\u201d in the future\u2014but still, it marks a troubling security flaw for an app<\/a> that previously pledged to help protect users’ identities. This is the type of dangerous<\/i> situation that is definitely not hot…<\/p>\n

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A popular fetish app has been called out for being very very bad\u2014not in a good way. Whiplr, which bills itself as the \u201cworld’s biggest online fetish community,\u201d was found to be storing users’ passwords in plain text. It stores unmasked user credentials in its internal database, which leaves them wide open to hackers. 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