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SCRUFF CEO Explains The Security 'Flaw' Built Into All Location-Aware Apps

SCRUFF CEO Explains The Security 'Flaw' Built Into All Location-Aware Apps

Screen Shot 2014-09-15 at 3.42.45 PMSCRUFF CEO Eric Silverberg took to The Huffington Post to give the internet a brief, but insightful, lesson in “trilateration,” the process through which a person’s specific location can be pinpointed with a few bits of information and a little bit of know-how.

“The most important thing you should know about location-based apps is this: Any app that shows relative distance between members can be used to pinpoint your location.” He explains. “While there are measures we have taken to protect our community, it’s critical that all users understand the benefits and limitations intrinsic to location-based apps.”

All mobile social networking apps with geo-location functionality can approximate a user’s general location, Silverberg explains, but a basic understanding of geometry can easily reveal a user’s position even after deciding to turn off detailed GPS ing features:

“If I know you are 1 mile away from me, but I don’t know which direction, then the circumference of a circle, centered at my location, defines the set of possible places you could be. If I simply move to two other places and record your relative distance, with those three readings I can calculate your location.”

According to Silverberg SCRUFF has attempted to circumvent some of the security “flaws” inherent in all location-aware services by randomizing users’ location data on SCRUFF’s backend. Every phone or tablet using the SCRUFF app sends its location information back to app’s servers so that other users can request it upon tapping a profile. For those users who select to have their locations hidden from the general public, SCRUFF will go so far as to spoof where a person actually is.

“This means that, if [a user] lives in the West Village in NYC, he could potentially appear in between two people in SoHo,” said Silverberg.”[We also] take density into account, so if you live in the city, your location will be randomized by a few blocks, but in the country it could be a few miles or more.”


Charles Pulliam-Moore

www.towleroad.com/2014/09/scruff-ceo-explains-the-security-flaw-built-into-all-location-aware-apps.html

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'Glee' Star Cheyenne Jackson Marries Beau Jason Landeau

'Glee' Star Cheyenne Jackson Marries Beau Jason Landeau
“Glee” star Cheyenne Jackson got married, everyone! Now that’s something to sing about.

On Saturday evening, Jackson tied the knot with entrepreneur beau Jason Landau in an outdoor ceremony at a friend’s estate in Encino, California. The two made their vows in front of loved ones, including celebrity pals Jane Lynch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Leah Remini and Alicia Silverstone.

Jackson and Landau met last year, while they were both in rehab for alcohol addiction.

“It was love at first sight,” Jackson told People.

The two got engaged in February, six months after Jackson divorced his first husband, Monte Lapka.

“We’ve both been through a lot in our lives,” Jackson told People. “We got sober together. Now we sing and we dance together. It blows my mind.”

Congratulations to the happy couple!

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/15/cheyenne-jackson-marries-jason-landau_n_5823468.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

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Welcome To Cameroon, Where Drinking Bailey’s Irish Cream Means You’re Gay And Gets You Thrown In Jail

Welcome To Cameroon, Where Drinking Bailey’s Irish Cream Means You’re Gay And Gets You Thrown In Jail

il_340x270.324822995A man in Cameroon has been convicted of homosexuality after drinking Bailey’s Irish Cream. He’ll now spend the next half a decade in jail for consuming what a judge called a “woman’s beverage.”

Michel Togue, the man’s attorney, says this sort of thing happens all the in the west African nation, where having gay sex can land a person up to five years behind bars. He told ThinkProgress that he has defended dozens of men and women “accused” of being gay, most of whom were never actually caught in the act of having sex.

Togue explained that in Cameroon, many innocent people have been accused of homosexuality by neighbors, family members or scorned ex-lovers looking to settle scores. Once an accusation is made, police make arrests based on how individuals present themselves. For example, if somebody has a job that doesn’t fit their gender, such as a male hairdresser, it could be used as evidence of homosexuality.

“To catch people having sex, to catch them in the act, you have to break the law. You have to violate their privacy, which is an offense,” he said. “But the police will not focus on the offense of breaking the privacy of someone, but they will focus on the fact that they saw two people of the same gender having sex.”

In Tongue’s client’s case, the judge convicted the man for having “feminine mannerisms” and for drinking Bailey’s Irish Cream, which he believed should only be consumed by women.

Togue says the growing stigma against being gay is scaring people away getting tested for HIV. “They can’t go to the hospital for the treatment or even for a test because they’re afraid,” he explained. He then recalled a case in which a man told a nurse he had engaged in gay sex and the nurse reported him to police.

Togue says he hopes that people in Cameroon will learn that “a homosexual is our friend, is our brother, is our sister, is part of our family — is not a stranger, not someone coming from outside.”

Graham Gremore

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Homophobic Minnesota Vikings Special Teams Coach Mike Priefer Returns From Suspension

Homophobic Minnesota Vikings Special Teams Coach Mike Priefer Returns From Suspension

Screen Shot 2014-09-15 at 1.33.08 PMMinnesota Vikings special teams coach Mike Priefer is being reinstated today after sitting out two games of his three game suspension. Priefer’s suspension came earlier this year following accusations from former Vikings kicker Chris Kluwe claiming that Priefer was active and central to the promotion of locker room homophobia and general hostility.

“Mike Priefer also said on multiple occasions that I would wind up burning in hell with the gays, and that the only truth was Jesus Christ and the Bible.” Kluwe wrote in an open letter Deadspin published in January. “He said all this in a semi-joking tone, and I responded in kind, as I felt a yelling match with my coach over human rights would greatly diminish my chances of remaining employed.”

While Priefer denied the accusations against him, a third party investigation into the matter corroborated at least one of Kluwe’s claims of homophobic exchanges with priefer. Kluwe, who claimed that he was let go from the Vikings because of his support of the LGBT community, recently reached a settlement with the Minnesota team after threatening to sue.

“I regret what has occurred and what I said.” Priefer said in a press conference following his suspension. “I am extremely sorry but I will learn from this situation and will work on educating others to create more tolerance and respect.”


Charles Pulliam-Moore

www.towleroad.com/2014/09/homophobic-minnesota-vikings-special-teams-coach-mike-priefer-returns-from-suspension.html

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Ashley Judd 'Absolutely' Feels The Misogyny On Set In Hollywood

Ashley Judd 'Absolutely' Feels The Misogyny On Set In Hollywood
Ashley Judd has never been quiet about the media’s sexist coverage of women, and now she’s opening up about the misogyny she’s encountered as a working woman in Hollywood.

The 46-year-old actress sat down with HitFlix on Sept. 12 to discuss her upcoming movie “Dolphin Tale 2.” About three minutes into the interview, HitFlix’s Louis Virtel brought up Judd’s articulate 2012 Daily Beast article on the media’s “misogynistic assault on all women,” and asked if she’s ever encountered this sexism in her professional life. Her response: “Absolutely.”

Judd pointed out both subtle and blatant sexism she’s experienced in the workplace:

Recently, in part of the strength of my growing up — and I don’t mean just in years — but growing up spiritually, growing up emotionally, is being able to risk authority figures disapproval in order to point out what I think is workplace discrimination.

She also recounted numerous times she received “sexually charged” comments from producers and fell victim to “egregious sexual harassment” from a “famous movie mogul.” Judd told Virtel that, despite being a well-versed women’s studies minor, it wasn’t until years later when her and other actors traded similar stories of this man’s inappropriate behavior that she realized it was sexual harassment.

At the time… I had no idea at the time that that’s what was happening to me. It took years for me to identify in retrospect that that is what had occurred. Later, when some of us other actors got together and talked about it, “Oh yeah, he did that to me too.”

Judd used this anecdote to point out the importance of “female-to-female alliances” and that it’s not just women who are negatively affected by everyday misogyny. “I think the patriarchy is as abusive and exclusive to boys and men as it is girls and women and totally limits these constraining definitions of who we are and how we’re supposed to be,” she said.

That’s definitely a “W” in our book of feminist takedowns.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/15/ashley-judd-misogyny-in-hollywood-hitflix-interview_n_5822170.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

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