After hearing about Cox Media Group, I am wondering why someone can’t simply look at the lines of code of an app or OS and see whether or not a connected device is spying on the user to sell them ads.
Like extract the .ipa Instagram app from an iphone and look at its code with xcode, search for audio recording features that could be running at times the iser isn’t running the app.
The multiple theories around this hypothesis always have something mystical about it as if coding wasn’t science.
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I can look at all the traffic leaving my phone over my wifi network. While that doesn’t necessarily tell me what the contents of the traffic is, I can see what sites it is sending data to. Haven’t found anything spying that I didn’t already know was spying (especially TVs) yet.
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