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Magic Kinder Android App Lets Strangers Send Images, Videos To Your Kids (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The scenario which all parents hate seems to have materialized in the form of an Android app [called Magic Kinder] that lets strangers send texts, images, and videos to kids. All of this is facilitated by a simple app design and lack of encryption, which allows attackers to manipulate HTTP requests and send any content they like to any of the app's users. Currently, because the app developer did not respond, the issues are still present in the app. Fortunately, the app hasn't been installed on more than 11,000 devices.
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The scenario which all parents hate seems to have materialized in the form of an Android app [called Magic Kinder] that lets strangers send texts, images, and videos to kids.
I understand the Facebook lawyers have filed for relief for prior art.
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So like, every communication app out there from Snapchat to Line to Skype to WhatsApp to the browser?
Kids will add anyone on any service. More so if you try and prevent it.
Judging by the name and typography, this appears to be related to Kinder chocolates, a low quality, high sugar chocolate marketed to children. If you're worried about your kids' health and well being, that kind of junk food is much more likely to hurt them than some weird video sent to them by a stranger.
Ronald is definitely a stranger.
Obligatory Simpsons reference.
"the app hasn't been installed on more than 11,000 devices."
Which implies that this Android app has been installed on about 1.1 billion devices.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
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Bullshit.
Read the fucking page on the Google PlayStore.
It's 10,800 REVIEWS fuckwit.
The number of installs is "500,000 to 1,000,000"
I read the title and thought that this was being touted as a good thing. "Let strangers send video and text to YOUR kids! Surprise and Delight!"
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So does YouTube, no exploit required.
Sounds like these folks are gonna need a dick filtering algorithm... might want to contact the folks at Chatroulette.
Maybe there is an app for that.
I consider a reality where You deserve more a sue rather than my dick in your ass. And to ruin a career, You need a career first. I bet that nurse wants to put a bullet in me before hitting his head. Because freaking the cat out helps his lab having the results he needs. Know that episode from South Park where the parents hire an actor to fool their kids with time travel? Can I hire one of those to show my parents how awful my life will be if I date cunts? (sure it's the real difference amidst friends I know, the ones with a cunt are not friends, and even men have vaginas nowdays) And what for? Of course it's for American propaganda using the damn idea for a box movie! Before WW3 going public (it started at 2001, dummies...) when they have the need to raise the mercenaries they need after witnessing I denying some rich nerdy Kardashian type asshole on camera by releasing a public warning about a restraint order against all those bunch of creeps around because of that little turd..
I preffer my kid to grow up the old fashioned way. Yes no tablet for her. I want her to run, jump and play with real toys and real kids. You may not like it but all this tech we put in our lives is changing us for no good.
I love the use of "your" in the headline. Really drives the righteous fury to a boiling point. It also puts softpedia on my blacklist permanently.
Quick, hide your males!
Magic Kinder Android App Lets Strangers Send Images, Videos To Your Kids
I had no idea so many kids were directly connected to teh interwebs.
Or did you mean directly to devices used by kids, which parents should probably be keeping an eye on anyway?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
The scenario which all parents hate seems to have materialized in the form of a program [called email] that lets strangers send texts, images, and videos to kids.
FTFY
Oh my god! The world will end.
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Bozza discovered that, because the app doesn't use encryption in any way or form, an attacker, via a proxy on the local network, can intercept traffic coming from a device with the Magic Kinder app installed.
Oh come on. The likelihood of this being exploited is basically nil. There are tens of thousands of apps that would have this kind of vulnerability. This is not remotely newsworthy enough to be on Slashdot. It sounds like either this Bozza guy is wanting publicity, or a competitor wants to damage Magic Kinder's reputation. Either way I don't care, and I doubt anyone else here on Slashdot cares either.
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this appears to be related to Kinder chocolates
But don't worry too much. At least in the US, their chocolate eggs are banned because they contain toys (on the grounds of choking hasard).
Fear not the horrible chocolate! Your kids can safely go back to playing with their pink-painted child-marketed riffles.
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