Apps hiding malicious functions collect data – including location, audio and camera – which could facilitate surveillance and harassment.
And nowhere to be found is an actual list of affected apps - only a couple examples.
Great job, NCSC 🤨👍
Isn’t every app that’s not open source assumed to be spyware nowadays?
Wake me up when this sort of thing is actually illegal. Preferably punishable with jail time.
This isn’t that. This isn’t “let us collect data on you so we can aggregate it and monetize it, it’s buried in the EULA.”
This is state-sponsored actual malware being used to identify, target, track specific individuals.
Yeah, and?
Do you honestly believe there’s a single person on lemmy with enough gravitas to be worth being tracked by the elite?
Maybe. The bad actor here seems to be the government of China, and the linked page says:
The individuals most at risk include anyone connected to: Taiwanese independence; Tibetan rights; Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in or from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; democracy advocacy, including Hong Kong, and the Falun Gong spiritual movement.
I can imagine them casting a wide net.
#1 reason I’ll never visit china, as much as there seems to be amazing things to see there
yes, absolutely. plently of programmers here with various agendas
Most definitely. At least a few, but not many.
