back to article Dating app for Trump loners commits YUGE blunder: It leaks more than the West Wing

A much-hyped dating site for Donald Trump supporters in the US is being blasted for shoddy security that may have exposed all of its users to eavesdropping and account theft. Donald Daters pitches itself as "an American-based singles community connecting lovers, friends, and Trump supporters alike." The app, offered for both …

  1. whoseyourdaddy

    But, do we really carry if the bigots get pwned?

    I sure don't...

    1. VikiAi
      Trollface

      We should only carry if we exceed our numeric base.

  2. Steve Knox
    Trollface

    FAKE NEWS

    Clearly this "Robert Baptiste" is a puppet for the liberal elite. That's why he's posting on Twitter under a different name.

    Donald Daters is a great site - the best site. It's absolutely not an attempt to sucker already proven rubes into giving away their personal details.

    This article is nothing but a deep blue state smear campaign. Sad.

    1. chivo243 Silver badge
      Coffee/keyboard

      Re: FAKE NEWS

      @Steve Knox

      "already proven rubes"

      +1 is never enough! Have a pint on me! And I need a new keyboard ;-}

    2. phuzz Silver badge

      Re: FAKE NEWS

      "an attempt to sucker already proven rubes"

      It's a bit like spam emails intentionally misspelling words, because the last person you want to run your con on is someone who'll notice small flaws. If they don't notice the obvious flaws then they'll probably fall straight for the scam.

  3. redpawn

    Security staff

    The security staff is so good, they can afford to work for free.

    1. Robert Helpmann??
      Childcatcher

      Re: Security staff

      The security staff is so good, they can afford to work for free.

      ...and are worthy every bit as much.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Bet it doesn't leak as much

    as a hooker in a Moscow hotel.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Trollface

    So...

    Someone grabbed them by the App ?

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Well of course a conservative app will be shoddily made

    Everyone knows all the best programmers work in Silicon Valley, and they are overwhelmingly liberal or libertarian. The MAGA heads are all third rate programmers, as demonstrated by their third rate security that would embarrass even Adobe!

    1. IneptAdept

      Re: Well of course a conservative app will be shoddily made

      Well thats not fair, there has been loads of reports of Silicon Valley startups leaving MongoDB instances open

      1. J27

        Yeah...

        MongoDB is not exactly the model for security. Default install? Let's go totally unprotected!

    2. Geoffrey W

      Re: Well of course a conservative app will be shoddily made

      P'raps it's a Liberal plot to "Out" Trumpers seeking new mates and friends, and is actually written by those alleged liberal silicon valley programmers.

      And Libertarian is a very misleading label. It sounds like Liberal, but is actually more akin to Republican extremism. The current despot in chief is more Libertarian than Republican.

    3. Suburban Inmate

      Their code is as good as their English

      Shite like "ZOG's Nightmare" is what passes for a game in their hateful little echo chamber.

      Uh, don't go looking for that on YouTube if you're at work. It's a white supremacist FPS.

  7. RGE_Master

    Wow, just, wow....

    So much fail is such a small picture.... I do find it impressive how incompetent some people can be.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Thats not trumpys dating app

    Pornhub

    Thats donalds dating app...

  9. Antron Argaiv Silver badge
    FAIL

    +1 for the image

    Willing to bet ($1M) that users are almost exclusively male.

    Though I must admit I am surprised at the number of women supporting Trump

    None I'd be interested in dating, though...

    1. RickyRickyWrecked

      Re: +1 for the image

      "Conservative women who believe and family, honor and self reliance are terrible."

      "You want one of those poly/liberal hate machines that gets drunk and cheats on you and blames it on everyone else. "

      This is what you sound like. I'm sorry, but I think your view is skewed. You marry a conservative woman who focuses on a family and honor. You don't grow old with a liberal, you get divorced and pay for their next nonsense adventure.

      The modern liberal woman is inwardly focused, selfish, a bad mate. A union of two or a marriage is a partnership, it will never succeed with the extremely selfish.

  10. Loyal Commenter Silver badge
    Trollface

    If you've got nothing to hide, there'e nothing to fear!

    Amirite?

  11. 2Nick3

    A rose by any other name...

    A shoddy app, by any name, is still a shoddy app.

    Assuming the makers of the app are Trump supporters is unsupported - using his name means nothing (Just how democratic is the DPRK?). About all we know for sure is they don't know much about data security.

    1. rjmx
      Trollface

      Re: A rose by any other name...

      Uh-oh. Somebody's triggered ...

    2. Ken Hagan Gold badge

      Re: A rose by any other name...

      "Assuming the makers of the app are Trump supporters is unsupported"

      True enough. Two of them are apparently app developers and may just have been paid to do the job. Of the other 1605, I'd assume that a fair number are journalists and hostile politicians (under fake profiles) looking to find out who else is there and what dirt there might be. Remember, when Ashley Madison went down, it turned out that most of the female members were just using it as a business tool.

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    There are no secure dating apps

    NEVER trust any dating app. I finally created my own dating email address after getting too many NSFW photos on my normal email. Usually from dodgy locations as well. My current girlfriend and I were introduced by a friend.

    AC cause dating is personal.

  13. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
    Facepalm

    Donald Daters

    Donald Daters pitches itself as "an American-based singles community connecting lovers, friends, and Trump supporters alike."

    Holy crap! This is a real thing? You know partisan politics has gone too far when you have to be a supporter of the "right" party to get a date. And it's named after the Donald too? Ego by gad!

    Is it April already?

  14. Potemkine! Silver badge

    Idiocracy 2050

    Is helping these people to reproduce a such good idea?

    1. VikiAi
      Go

      Re: Idiocracy 2050

      We need someone's kids to send down the coal mines.

      Oh wait....!

      1. John Brown (no body) Silver badge

        Re: Idiocracy 2050

        "We need someone's kids to send down the coal mines."

        Ah, but Trump has promised to re-open all the coal mines because climate change is a Chinese hoax!

        Except he seems reluctant to claim it's a hoax now, has agreed that the climate is changing (well, that's what it does anyway, of course) and even agrees that pollution is playing some part in it. But he does think that it will somehow reverse again without anyone doing anything.

      2. Roo
        Windows

        Re: Idiocracy 2050

        No fear of their offspring going down the coal mines, they will have terminal bone spurs.

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