ELI5, Is there a way someone (me?) can snoop and see data being sent by an API to an app on my phone?

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ELI5, Is there a way someone (me?) can snoop and see data being sent by an API to an app on my phone?

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Sure. Install Wireshark on your computer, and use your phone on the same wifi network that your computer is on. That doesn’t necessarily mean you can *understand* the traffic – if either end is encrypting the data then all you’ll see is encrypted junk, for example – but you can *see* the traffic.

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