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> According to Kryptowire, Adups engineers would have been able to collect data such as SMS messages, call logs, contact lists, geo-location data, IMSI and IMEI identifiers, and would have been able to forcibly install other apps or execute root commands on all devices.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-adups...

Comment · 2 years ago

You know... they could be just another malicious actor. I mean they appeal to emotions, github is not showing them as active in the community, pseudonym without any details in the profile. And by malicious actor I do not mean that they are trying to gain access, they could be just trolling Larhzu.

Comment · 2 years ago

They are talking about the tone of the message. "it shouldn't be this hard" is not the proper way to report a bug at least not in a neutral way. It has the intention to make the maintainer feel bad and increase the likelihood of a change. And that was just in the title.

Comment · 2 years ago

Adding a backdoor to closed source software if you are the government is (almost) free so I do not think that the argument he is making about cost is a valid one.

Comment · 2 years ago

But it says that "All rates are reported per 100k population."

Comment · 2 years ago

The actual title of the video is "Your vision isn't what you think it is -- see for yourself"

Comment · 3 years ago

> I think it's unfair to compare Facebook actively screwing us to Apple not adopting your proposed metric

I don't think they were comparing. They were basically saying that Apple is complicit to what Facebook (and others) are doing with regard to data collection.