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The stupidest $1 million app ever has already been hacked

21
Jun
2014

Who would have thought that the stupidest $1 million app in world history would have shoddy security? Yo, the inexplicably dumb new messaging app that was created in just eight hours and has raised $1 million in funding, has already been hacked by college students at Georgia Tech. As TechCrunch reports, the students figured out how to get any Yo user’s phone number and then use it to spam out an infinite number of “Yo’s” to anyone in their contacts. Basically, the Georgia Tech kids have discovered how to take an app that’s already annoying and make it even more annoying. But it gets worse — TechCrunch has also spotted another unconfirmed Yo hack that replaces the standard “Yo” sound with

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