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You can identify devices with vulnerable libraries and do targeted attacks.

• ORioN63 7y ago
  This. This is the biggest one for me. Anyone who has that data is capable of playing back the 0-days that affect android. How many android phones are kept out of date? As other user mentioned, the Android ecosystem is like the Wild West. Given there's a report for 2.5B active devices, how many can be affected by such an attack? 1% would affect 25M devices, around the population of Australia. 10% - 250 million devices. 40% - 1 billion devices...
  • not2b 7y ago
    Perhaps their motivation is to launch a campaign saying "Facebook keeps you safe!" by scanning your phone, and use it to justify people signing up for more surveillance. Perhaps this is a stealth beta test.