Jack’d users just got jacked.
According to The Register, due to a major security flaw, x-rated photos, videos, and chats privately shared between users on the app are available to view by anyone online. Not just that, but they can be seen without logging in or installing the app.
The Register reports:
Those photos, public and private, can be accessed by anyone with a web browser and who knows just where to look, though, it appears. As there is no authentication, no need to sign up to the app, and no limits in place, miscreants can therefore download the entire image database for further havoc and potential blackmail.
The security breach was first discovered by Oliver Hough, who says he reported it to Jack’d three months ago. So far, he says, nothing has been done to fix it.
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Editors at The Register say they’ve verified the flaw but they’ve chosen to withheld specific details “to discourage exploitation”. They also say repeated requests to Jack’d, as well its parent company Online Buddies, for comment have been ignored.
Obviously, having the private images of users accessible to the whole world is not an intended function of the app. Apart from leaking highly compromising snaps of folks, some of its users may not be publicly out as gay or bi, and thus a trove of compromising images of them sitting on the web is not particularly great for their welfare – particularly if homosexuality is illegal where they live.
So that’s all pretty terrible; however, there’s one teeny tiny tidbit of good news. According to Hough, there doesn’t appear to be any way to connect x-rated photos and videos to a specific person’s profiles.
In other words: Your nudie pics may be floating around on the internet, but at least your name’s not attached to them.
Brian
By now, don’t we all know the potential of something like this happening if we put nudes online? Once you put them out there it’s beyond your control to keep them out of the wrong hands. Shit happens.
fur_hunter
Yep! You are SOOooo correct! And as Reba McEntire sings in her song…….”Sshhh…..it happens.”
Brian
Here’s your once chance Jack’d don’t let me down…..
TomG
People somehow don’t seem to understand that EVERYTHING that is on the net, including the porn you have watched, is stored on servers in Utah and NEVER DISAPPEARS. So if you do not want to be embarrassed, get off the system and there’d be nothing to save about you.
Vince
Just don’t do a full body nude pic then. Who cares if it’s stolen when it’s just a torso or dick pic. That and most are just not that interesting. Only the closet cases and insanely hot should be worrying about that.
1898
“According to Hough, there doesn’t appear to be any way to connect x-rated photos and videos to a specific person’s profiles.”
(emphasis added)
All this means is that no one has *yet* found a way to connect photos to profiles. That doesn’t mean it won’t happen, on this or any other app. Therefore, simply cropping your face out of the picture doesn’t mean it can’t be linked to your identity.
fur_hunter
Vince….You are absolutely correct. Keep your face out of it. Once you send something out into the ‘net’ world….you no longer have ANY control over it.
Wicked Dickie
I have many of my dick pics floating around the internet. Hard, soft, full thrust, in mouths, in asses, cumming, dripping, shaved, full bush. Meh.
1898
Congrats?
LostMyClothesAgain
I’ve told you repeatedly to stop using pics of my big dick in your profiles.
odowd4sure
Love to see
WeHo90046
You must be very well endowed lol
Greg
That’s hot.
bbertc
Prove it. : )
Bob LaBlah
What fool would believe or even think that a video is secure once it goes online regardless of the site? These people have lost their minds. The fact that Grindr and Jack’d can only be accessed from your phone should raise the question of whether or not your exact location could be pinpointed. I thank god for the bathhouses. No texting or phone app b.s. required.
david_warner
Amen to that! Face-to-face cruising is a lost art!
david_warner
Yeah? So what? No one cares anymore. Everyone’s got pics now. Celebs “accidentally” leak their own on purpose every damn day to get more cred. Pick up just about anyone’s cellphone and you’ll probably find pictures of their dick or action shots/videos of some sex act. You see dicks in person in the locker room every damn day and no one cares. You see more dicks on cable TV now than ever before. I was in a bar just last month with a social group of about 25 male friends when the conversation turned to dick pics … so we all got out of phones to compare and all but 1 guy had pictures of his dick on his phone. If you’re embarrassed by your dick, don’t take pictures of it … otherwise, get over it.
Greg
I couldn’t find no x-rated pics or videos
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
psst…….hey guys, there’s NO privacy on the internets..,….
moose6969
I couldn’t care less about if my pics are out there. I’ve sent heaps of guys my dick pics anyway.
Charlie in Charge
It’s fascinating that the response to such a major security flaw by a hook up app is “Pfffft, who cares?”
Bob LaBlah
It takes tens of thousands of dollars to fix a flaw of that magnitude and even then there is no guarantee that the bug has been removed. I doubt if their profit margin is that great and I don’t blame them for their nonchalant attitude. For every one that leaves two more sign up so why bother?
Brian
Of course you do
Curtispsf
And I’d guess from your previous posts that you are in favor of public executions and shuttering menstruating women from going out in public.
Curtispsf
I’m guessing that this is a promo ad for Jack’d because I couldn’t find any dick pics on the appliaction.
strix1
WTF is Jack’d??? Can’t think of any reason I want to download ANOTHER gay dating app or is it a hot or not app? In any case, been there, done that…and if people are still posting nudes of themselves online I don’t think they care if the pics get leaked, keep posting!
Creamsicle
Ironically, the userbase for Jack’d tends to be twinks, at least in my area when I used it a few years back. It’s an alright app, in terms of user experience, but clearly not on top of their privacy game.
MarathonBoy
More happy news from the land of promiscuity! What an exciting and liberating way to live!
lool! These selfish, pleasure-obsessed fools helped to create a world where sex is decoupled from love, where people are reduced to slabs of meat. Let the world gaze upon them in horror.
MarathonBoy
I always thought it funny how certain people are obsessed with “systems of oppression” and how these “systems” are perpetuated by individual behavior. But when it comes to these hookup apps, and the broader promiscuity-industrial complex, these same people don’t want to talk about systems anymore. It’s all about individual choice and there are no consequences which extend beyond the individual. Sad hypocrites, defending a failed way of life.
Brian
Get help. Most insurance plans don’t even require a referral to see a psychologist. You can just pick one and go.
batesmotel
When there are thousands of pics and asses all over the internet they all start to look the same and a bit bland and dull. Unless someone is famous, no one really cares.
strix1
Exactly.
bobdobalina
I sure hope that the bully from school who tormented you to create the piece of crap human that you are makes a come back and pulls your pants off in front of your family, coworkers, and boss and kicks you in your revealed micro penis. Then everyone will understand why you’re a miserable little prick.