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The Response Times

May 25, 2023 David Teather View Project

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My journey into security analysis started with YikYak, a social media app, exposing post GPS locations. I initially only was looking at YikYak to create a python package for interacting with their API but their API was exposing the locations of each post, allowing a potential bad actor to track the movements of users based on their posting activity.

As much as I’m dissapointed in the lack of security around protecting user’s data, I’m glad I discovered it because it made me start my security blog on The Response Times and help protect user data from malicious actors.

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I really enjoy doing this kind of work, although it can be frustrating at times is interesting to me and combines a lot of interests of mine. I’d like to spend more time working on this kind of analysis, but finding targets to analyze is difficult.

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