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Craig Bruckman

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  1. Allow mock locations, please!

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    Craig Bruckman commented  · 

    Mock Locations makes trilateration very easy. In other words people can pin-point your precise location by knowing your distance from 3 or so sets of GPS coordinates. And if your think turning off your distance would prevent this. If someone really wants to find your location, they can just create another profile and spoof that one until you’re “sandwiched in” between two profiles on their grid of known distance that are similar.

  2. Exact distance shouldn't be shown for people less than a km away

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    Craig Bruckman commented  · 

    They can just use the iOS app or the website FreeMapTools (Radius around a point) to pinpoint your location within 10 meters.

  3. Have a way to filter out bots solicitation and scams

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    Craig Bruckman commented  · 

    The distance displayed essentially advertises your EXACT location to every Grindr user that is logged into the app. This distance is updated every time you send a message or refresh the app. Anyone can then EASILY calculate the location of your home, work, church, bar, trick’s house (and who you probably fucked last night). This is called trilateration and it can be calculated by spreadsheet or other computer promgram that utilizes complex geodesic equations…..or very simply using FreeMapTools/Radius Around a Point and drawing circles using the distance as the radius with respect to each “center point”. The target is simply at the intercection.

    Most people would actually be very uncomfortable after reading this and will likely disable their distance as well.

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