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Feel-good bullshit: Instead of machine vision, "save refugees" app asks users to look at empty images of the oceanhttp://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tech-gaming/i-sea-the-app-helping-to-discover-and-rescue-refugees-in-the-mediterranean-a3273841.html …
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I've got to be wrong on this somehow. There's no way this is a sham for attention. Someone correct me please and I'll delete and apologize.
Rosyna Keller
@SwiftOnSecurity The Map/images is from Google Maps (which means out of date. The weather is for Misrata, Libya http://api.wunderground.com/api/d285adcfd191ce6f/conditions/forecast/alert/q/33.864370597442,15.2966393530369.json …
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@SwiftOnSecurity It also uses the Facebook Graph APIshttps://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api -
@SwiftOnSecurity If you want, you can download the I SEA.ipa to your computer box using iTunes, change the extension to .zip and view assets -
@SwiftOnSecurity To confirm what the app is doing, try Charles Proxy. Sadly, it's a Java app. https://www.charlesproxy.com -
@SwiftOnSecurity But more importantly, the privacy policy given in iTunes is invalid…
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@rosyna@SwiftOnSecurity and once again we learn that people are terrible. -
@alxknt@SwiftOnSecurity It's infuriating because what it professes to do *is* possible if it had up to date satellite data… - View other replies
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@rosyna@alxknt@SwiftOnSecurity How someone would win something from all this? - View other replies
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@agucova@alxknt@SwiftOnSecurity From the scam? The app asks for PII (email, name, passport number(!!!)) and donations… - View other replies
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@rosyna@alxknt@SwiftOnSecurity They claim to work with@moas_eu, they even commented it on their twitter account.... -
@agucova@alxknt@SwiftOnSecurity@moas_eu Yeah, the donation link goes tohttps://www.moas.eu/donate/ -
@rosyna@alxknt@SwiftOnSecurity@moas_eu So how… Does the app have ads or something? -
@agucova@alxknt@SwiftOnSecurity No. They app devs might have received funding or something. - View other replies
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(For those who don't know,
@rosyna is an iOS expert and developer.) -
@SwiftOnSecurity@rosyna apparently they specialize in uh, laminates and maps of the seapic.twitter.com/LPe3nA8I75
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@keller_josiah@rosyna@SwiftOnSecurity The story gets juicier. -
@rosyna@SwiftOnSecurity Might want to drop MOAS a note with what you see there.
alex kent
Agustín Covarrubias
BEWARE: Ed Zitron
Arswaw
Electronic Janitor
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