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Re: Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users

#21
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Re: Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users

#22
BEWARE OF FAKE HACKERS WHO SCAM:

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If your target account is Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, sexual accounts or other social accounts etc, or you want to hack into someones smartphone so you can monitor their calls, read their messages, chats, and social account activities without their notice, feel free to contact me and we would have a nice deal! I will explain to you how I am going to get the job done.

HACKING A WEBSITE Perhaps, many people want to hack their target website for their personal reasons. I am enough experienced and skilled in hacking websites and getting access to database and I am providing the web hacking services. It may be for database access, database dump, getting access to a specific information, defacing, you might want me to hack into court database and Erase your criminal records, maybe for political reasons or competitor company etc. I dont care what type of site you will give me to pen test. Is it high profile or low profile or medium profile, I will do my possible best (just be sure that you are not going to make it a real crime otherwise I will ignore you).

PAYMENT: PLEASE, think how much you will be paying for your job and don't waste time offering 100$ or 200$ (because we might require higher than that, depending on what you want to hack and the hack tool we are going to use. I accept various secure payment methods that maintains your anonymity. However, bank direct deposits and/or transfers are not accepted due to federal tracking laws.

You can contact me for any other type of "hijacking and attacks". I do almost everything. Compositehacks@gmail.com

Re: Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users

#24
post #6

How is Onavo a "data-security app" if it lets Facebook track everything you do, including encrypted traffic?

They forgot to mention that the one being secured is Facebook, not the user.

If you aren't paying for it, you aren't the user. You are the product.

Re: Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users

#25

Having Xposed and XPrivacy on my old phone, it's really interesting what permissions apps request. For example FB Messenger requests the permission to enumerate installed packages: https://wroot.org/posts/enumerating-android-installed-applic... and IIRC also enumerates running tasks. So it's probably simple to do analytics for the whole phone...

>"Having Xposed and XPrivacy on my old phone,"

I would be curious to hear your feed back on Xposed oand Xprivacy. Also it sounds like you stopped using them, maybe you could say why? Cheers.

Re: Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users

#26
This is obviously unethical. That it might not be illegal is our failing. They provide false solutions to a fear that they themselves create.

What's next? Giving every child a free phone on their 13th birthday? They already "gifted" the world's poorest with free internet. It's easiest to abuse those who have the least power to fight back.

"By accepting this gift, you agree to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy."

Re: Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users

#27

Facebook is very very evil, much more so than Google. SEC/DOJ/whoever needs to step in and stop Zuckerberg.

I recently tried to log into their mobile, javascript-less site, and in order to let me continue to log in they required a photo of my face and my phone number.

I've had to submit photos for online financial services/compliance, but not a social network that is tied into all kinds of other data.

And that's what they asked because I wasn't running javascript. It raised my concerns about what they do when I do have javascript enabled on their services. And I work in a company that collects data from its clients -- but nowhere near their scale.

Re: Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users

#28
This was a bad idea when the app was standalone—a no-name Israeli startup snooping into all your traffic—and now it's spyware. This is one major (if not THE) reason not to trust small startups with unclear privacy policies—they are often bought in order to (ab)use the data they have collected and continue abusing it from unsuspecting users. Terrible.

Re: Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users

#29
post #15

It's ethically dubious that the advertised function of the app is a VPN to "keep you and your data safe", while the reason it exists is so that all phone traffic goes to Facebook. This is not clear from the app description -- there is only a generic message about monitored app use, to which users are so used as to not pay any attention. > "The app's privacy policy says it may share information with "affiliates" that…

I once sat in on a pitch from an antivirus software company who was selling the ability to look at the full browsing history of people who had visited your website. You could see all of their searches, if they visited competitors, and more. Most of the time I get annoyed of the FUD of "they're selling my data!" but this was different. It was true and it was scary.

Yeah antivirus is kind of scary. I guess they could access all your files too if they wanted.

Re: Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users

#30
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I once sat in on a pitch from an antivirus software company who was selling the ability to look at the full browsing history of people who had visited your website. You could see all of their searches, if they visited competitors, and more. Most of the time I get annoyed of the FUD of "they're selling my data!" but this was different. It was true and it was scary.

Why not name them?

That would identify the GP to within a small group (the meeting). They probably worked under an NDA.

It would be great if an unrelated leak were to happen, though.

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