29-06-2018 20:32 via theverge.com

Tinder finally encrypted everyone’s photos

Tinder’s parent company Match Group publicly announced today, in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), that it is now encrypting photos sent between Tinder’s servers and its app. The changes were implemented in February, following the public disclosure of an attack that could have let hackers view people’s profile pictures and swipe actions.Wyden wrote a letter to Tinder back in February requesting that the company encrypt photos. It had apparently already done so (the letter say
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