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It would be fantastic if policymakers could enforce traffic transparency for mobile apps. I would love to just take my phone and see what is being transmitted,
by mhils 7y ago
It would be fantastic if policymakers could enforce traffic transparency for mobile apps. I would love to just take my phone and see what is being transmitted, but of course Android doesn't trust user-added Certificate Authoritites for app traffic.
Being able to see one's own traffic doesn't magically fix things, but giving average folks the ability to just inspect their traffic and write blog posts about it would at least improve the current situation, without requiring major technical changes.
- ivankolev 7y agoNetguard has the ability to log at least the ip addresses that are contacted by your apps.
- SXX 7y agoActually android is perfectly fine with you doing MiTM on your own traffic. If you had issues with it then it's mean app developers intentionally implemented certificate pinning to stop you from doing it. Yet Google / Android have nothing to do with it.
- 0x0 7y agoNo, recent androids will ignore user-installed CAs for app traffic except for apps compiled in debug mode opting in to mitm: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/07/changes-to-trusted-certificate.html https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/07/changes-to...
- SXX 7y agoAre you sure this wasn't reverted? I'm successfully used mitmproxy many times to debug all kind of Android apps and only money-related one usually caused issues. Another possibility is that work differently in LineageOS and this it's always worked for me.