A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers
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A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers
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#2This is one of those cases where I probably should feel bad for the company being repeatedly hacked to the point of being ripe for being shut down, but I just can't muster the will right now.
If you are in the business of collecting data without users' explicit permission, and can't protect that data from being accessed or deleted, you shoudln't be in business.
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#3> " Friday morning, after the hacker told us he had deleted much of Retina-X’s data, the company again said it had not been hacked. "
I have to admit that, despite all the seriousness of the actual SPYware this obviously terrible company sells, that one sentence brightened up my normal depressing morning experience of reading the weekday morning news on the Internet. That's just funny.
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#4How is this even possible that a 3rd party application can intercept all text messages, call history, and photos and still get published to the Android Play Store? Ins't Google supposed to be reviewing the apps?
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#5They stored the master key to their entire data store in a publicly distributed app?
> ...we have been taking steps to enhance our data security measures. Sharing details of security measures could only serve to potentially compromise those efforts.
Maybe they used ROT13 on the API key twice this time!
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#6How is this even possible that a 3rd party application can intercept all text messages, call history, and photos and still get published to the Android Play Store? Ins't Google supposed to be reviewing the apps?
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#7I see no reason to praise the hacker. He destroyed a legitimate company's private data for no purpose other than his flawed moral reasoning. The company provides a way for parents to monitor their children and other legitimate business practices. Obviously, the software can be used for nefarious purposes but so can almost any other software. U.S. representatives and senators try to ban encryption using the same exact flawed reasoning.
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#8I'm torn by a lot of things here. The validity of the claims in the article, the correctness of the hacker to simply delete data, but also the "stalkerware" as described by the article. Surely there's got to be a better way of dealing with this atrocious software? How can it be legal in the first place?
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#9How is this even possible that a 3rd party application can intercept all text messages, call history, and photos and still get published to the Android Play Store? Ins't Google supposed to be reviewing the apps?
Isn't Google supposed to be reviewing the apps?
The real question is: who gets to say in what someone's phone is going to be doing: the programmer, the manufacturer or the phone's owner. Most everyone would agree that the owner should have a word in it, and that the manufacturer should have no say at all.
Germany takes another approach: no one gets to do surveillance outside strict limits, privacy is highly regarded over there. The Guardian reports: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/18/germany-b...
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#10How is this even possible that a 3rd party application can intercept all text messages, call history, and photos and still get published to the Android Play Store? Ins't Google supposed to be reviewing the apps?
Going on their website, it's not in the Android app store. Looks like you buy, download then side load it.
There's no iOS version.