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I have a horribly naive and defiantly uninformed question: this was detected on an android device which is a fairly open platform when compared to the iPhone/W

by nicwest 15y ago

I have a horribly naive and defiantly uninformed question: this was detected on an android device which is a fairly open platform when compared to the iPhone/Windows phones in terms of software transparency, correct? Is there any way to know for certain that Apple/MS aren't doing this exact same/similar sort of thing?

masklinn 15y ago
> Is there any way to know for certain that Apple/MS aren't doing this exact same/similar sort of thing? You can't really ever know things "for certain", but considering the number of jailbroken iOS devices in researcher hands it's likely this would have been discovered.
Tobu 15y ago
Microsoft has in fact done the same sort of thing in Windows Update, though it denied it. Certainly nothing as brazen as a keylogger, but in 2003 it was caught phoning home a list of all installed software, and hardware identifiers, in an SSL connection.