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Mega-Popular Muslim Prayer Apps Were Secretly Harvesting Phone Numbers

Gizmodo

Google recently booted over a dozen apps from its Play Store—among them Muslim prayer apps with 10 million-plus downloads, a barcode scanner, and a clock—after researchers discovered secret data-harvesting code hidden within them. Creepier still, the clandestine code was engineered by a company linked to a Virginia… Read more.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

And the Xbox One seemed like a higher level software type hacking and I wasn't quite comfortable with that level of software. It's not network security where you can download a spec or code and analyze it on your Linux box. I'll do that probably before I'll even look at the software route. I had the money to buy it.