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It's good that they removed it, but it's also dissapointing that they had no idea that it was happening until someone made a blog post about it. Do their employees not vet any of the code they use, and just slap things together off the internet and hope it's not doing anything their users don't like?
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> Do their employees not vet any of the code they use, and just slap things together off the internet That sounds like a pretty accurate description of how software is built. (No, I'm not being flippant.) > ... and hope it's not doing anything their users don't like? I expect most don't think too much about it, not out of malice, but because their product manager told them "I want FB login" and to do that, they eithe…
I've worked at places where "cowboy coding" was the norm and people would just look up how to do something on StackOverflow and copy/paste it. But to pull in a major 3rd party dependency like this and just "YOLO" ship it in your company's product? That's almost unbelievable. Didn't anyone have a look to see what the thing does? Assuming the SDK comes with source code, and if they integrated a 3rd party library that d…
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honest question: _how_ do we attack the underlying systematic problem to solve it once and for all? write a blog post? take it twitter/HN/reddit? hold a rally/demonstration outside Apple/Google? call our MP? bombard their employees with phone calls or knock on their front door where they live? write malware? ... really I got nothing that sounds like it would work. In retrospect all of Tim Cook's privacy / security gr…
Legislation?
We're outgunned by the lobbying from these companies I think.
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I think it doesn't always have to scale. Zoom is a huge player right now and in great usage across all industries, countries and users.
Really?!? If it wasn't for this post I wouldn't even know that they exist.
Check any news outlet to know why, and you’re likely to also read about zoom in some article.
So it sounds like Zoom was using the Facebook SDK, and now they're not. I've been and iOS developer for a long time. I can tell you from experience that everyone does this. I have never worked for anyone who didn't ask for their app to include some combination of Facebook, Google, Flurry, AppCenter, Segment, Intercom, Parse, or whatever other random analytics framework the PM happens to be infatuated with. Getting ma…
edit: some people won't want to give them any slack because they committed the offenses in the first place, but I think that's silly. Reward them for trying, because if this is the way they're going to respond to blowing it, they're one of the good guys.
Also, that just linking the SDK in your app deanonimzes the user to Facebook is very, very clear in its documentation. It's not like Zoom didn't notice until someone told them. They made a decision, and now they're changing it because they were called out.
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You can pretty easily see all the traffic on your own phone. You can even do it on device https://apps.apple.com/us/app/charles-proxy/id1134218562
Seeing it != blocking it.
So it sounds like Zoom was using the Facebook SDK, and now they're not. I've been and iOS developer for a long time. I can tell you from experience that everyone does this. I have never worked for anyone who didn't ask for their app to include some combination of Facebook, Google, Flurry, AppCenter, Segment, Intercom, Parse, or whatever other random analytics framework the PM happens to be infatuated with. Getting ma…
Get mad at Facebook for stuffing analytics into their login button library
So it sounds like Zoom was using the Facebook SDK, and now they're not. I've been and iOS developer for a long time. I can tell you from experience that everyone does this. I have never worked for anyone who didn't ask for their app to include some combination of Facebook, Google, Flurry, AppCenter, Segment, Intercom, Parse, or whatever other random analytics framework the PM happens to be infatuated with. Getting ma…
So it sounds like Zoom was using the Facebook SDK, and now they're not. I've been and iOS developer for a long time. I can tell you from experience that everyone does this. I have never worked for anyone who didn't ask for their app to include some combination of Facebook, Google, Flurry, AppCenter, Segment, Intercom, Parse, or whatever other random analytics framework the PM happens to be infatuated with. Getting ma…
I don't want to live in a world where my parents and grandparents are expected to pull up Wireshark to figure out if the app they're using will record their front camera without consent. Blaming Zoom and FB is entirely acceptable here, it is their responsibility to keep my data private. Blaming Apple? Why, when Zoom is on the Play Store as well? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.zoom.videom... >As long…