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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As a software developer the short answer is the code is proprietary and not accessible to the general public. So we can’t simply look at it and determine what it does.when code is released to the public it become very hard to take the compiled version and understand what it does, especially when the creators do everything they can to stop exactly that. It is technically possible and it’s called reverse engineering but there is a lot of guesswork and it’s extremely time consuming.
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