pipedreams Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 (edited) Something to think about, nothing is ever completely free. "One in five apps from the top 150 free VPN Android apps in Google's Play Store was flagged as a potential source of malware, while a quarter of them come with user privacy breaking bugs such as DNS leaks which expose user DNS queries to their ISPs. As found by Simon Migliano, Metric Labs' Head of Research, the company behind the Top10VPN service, these VPN Android applications have already been installed approximately 260 million times according to the numbers reported by Google's official store." https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-user-privacy-failures-found-in-top-free-vpn-android-apps/ Edited January 27, 2019 by pipedreams 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moshe Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 Part of the Obama legacy of storing all communications at a large facility to data mine citizens in violation of the 4th Amendment. Ironically, it takes a subpoena and later a warrant to dig through people's phone after arrest. Before, it was considered inventoried property and anything on it was game. LEO/FLEO's can create an emergency subpoena for where a phone is pinging from, which later requires a warrant justifying the action. But, that was as of 2005. Every administration likes to change the rules. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minderasr Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 18 hours ago, pipedreams said: Something to think about, nothing is every completely free. This exactly. You get what you pay for. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them "Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and rewards teenagers and adults to download the Research app and give it root access to network traffic in what may be a violation of Apple policy so the social network can decrypt and analyze their phone activity, a TechCrunch investigation confirms." https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minderasr Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 And Apple revokes Facebook's developer certification. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-offered-gift-cards-for-root-level-access-to-ios-users-data/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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