by Robert Weiss on January 23, 2012
A nightmare waiting to happen, and a good reason to avoid finding sex using your “smart” phone: a popular app that spawned a sexual revolution in gay communities was compromised by a hacker, potentially exposing intimate personal chats, explicit photos and private information of users.
Grindr enables gay men to meet other gay men using their smart phone’s GPS. The app has more than one million users worldwide.
The hacker pushed the app developer into a security crisis that has left its users seriously vulnerable considering the vast amounts of private information traded through the app. The vulnerabilities are also present in Blendr, the straight version app.
To read the full article, click here.
by Robert Weiss on January 11, 2012
With online dating being the third most popular way for singles to meet beyond friends and family in 2010 (according to Match.com), along with sex and intimacy drastically being affected by the Internet and the digital age, the Sexual Recovery Institute has used its expertise to capture this trending topic by creating an infographic. The “Love in the Digital Age” infographic gives a breakdown of the online dating world by providing creative visuals paired with credible and mind-blowing statistics.
The statistics include:
• Number of individuals using online dating
• Courtship before marriage – online vs. in-person
• Global online dating profits
• Mobile dating
• Committed relationships stemming from online dating
• International online dating facts
To see the infographic, recently featured on Jezebel, click here.
