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This is so late to the game. I've been inspecting the traffic of iOS apps for a long time now, and have written to the developers asking them to remove these tr
by blindm 6y ago
This is so late to the game. I've been inspecting the traffic of iOS apps for a long time now, and have written to the developers asking them to remove these tracking beacons / analytics scripts.
I created a wireless hotspot in Linux, connected my iDevice to it, and then opened Wireshark and was able to see all the traffic of the iDevice. I would encourage everyone to inspect the traffic of apps to gauge their privacy score.
- ekanes 6y agoThanks. It could be useful since you might have more technical ability than many to say a bit more about what you found, if you're willing. Cheers!
- bfgoodrich 6y agoLate to the game? Who is Apple behind? Is this a "finally" kind of thing?
- gruez 6y agoA mass market solution is "late to the game" because some hobbyist can do it himself with lots of time and expertise? This sounds like the infamous "who needs dropbox when you can just do it yourself using FTP + curlftpfs + SVN/CVS?" comment on HN.
- sneak 6y agoApple expressly permits all of that tracking in the apps in the App Store. They could ban they behavior, but they don't. They could sherlock Little Snitch or make an outbound network connection permission for apps, but they don't. They could surface the data an app is transmitting, or the hosts to which it connects, but they don't.