A security flaw has been discovered in popular gay dating app Grindr that reveals the exact location of every user with location services enabled. In a post on note site PasteBin, an anonymous user explains how Grindr can be used to triangulate user locations using simple, unauthenticated calls to Grindr's application programming interface API calls.

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