4/15/2016

The hidden dangers of the apps.


The hidden dangers of the apps.


Whoever owns a smartphone or a tablet, or both, knows what an app is. Many businesses know this, so they have developed their own apps. Apps are simple programs that improve the interaction and functionality… they are also friendly to most of the users. By «living in a phone», it could be said that the apps will always be with the user. This is “the truth” about apps. 
 
The Baidu Case was an episode in which millions of Windows and Android users downloaded applications for Baidu (navigation bar and app) that “leaked” the personal information of its users (IMEI, URLS visited, location and even phone models) straight to Baidu's servers.
#UberGate and the travel logs of millions of users being stored in databases... sitting... for real, do you really need me to explain this one?. God View is a “bragadoccio” that Uber developed (internal use only) to allow the company to track the position of "its vehicles and passengers”... on real time.
All this information makes Uber a target of all the government agencies that crave all the tools that will allow them to control their subjects… pardon me, “citizens”.
The importance of Uber… back in 2014, Uber provided transport services to 61% of the Members of Congress in the United States… take a look at the complaint to the FTC because of Uber's privacy policy and its plans to monitor its user's contacts… using promo codes!.

Facebook

Facebook apps leak user's information through iFrames (
inline frame or built-in frame). An iFrame is an element within a web site that allows a code to work from the outside. Due to errors in code, because there are always there, the apps' iFrame “leaks” the information to advertisers or analytical and web analytics; giving them access to photos, messages and private information.
Here are Symantec's views on Facebook and its Apps.
End-to-End Encryption or E2EE is a communications system in which only the people involved can read the messages. Not even the service providers have access to the keys.
Whatsapp announced that its messaging services would be encrypted and the only ones that could read the messages are the sender and the receiver (E2EE)… but even so, Whatsapp will store the conversations of its users… for security purposes.

The name of the game is metadata. The issue is data protection and privacy against the things that companies, agencies and governments are doing with the information that each one of us generates through devices, on a daily basis. We are talking about privacy; we are talking about the human right to do whatever the fuck we desire to do, without all these “cyber-actions” going straight to the ledger. These agencies and governments own the ledger, and they will always use it while hiding in the shadows, the idea is to "neutralize" its adversaries by “leaking” the type of information that shocks hypocritical societies and destroys lives… at night, without a sound… no smoking gun.

@feexit
www.feexit.mx

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