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"iOS forensics and security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski spent Tuesday morning disassembling Facebook Messenger’s iOS binary, at one point declaring via Twitter that 'Messenger appears to have more spyware type code in it than I've seen in products intended specifically for enterprise surveillance.”
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bryans 10 years, 2 months ago
I have grown up with these sorts of things (21) and I still find it disturbing. We already unintentionally and sometimes intentionally let out more information than we should without developers snooping around where their noses don't belong. Unfortunately the only solution I see is to discontinue use of these products. If enough people do it maybe they will get the point. But it will take a lot.
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glen 10 years, 2 months ago
That's one thing that I'm proud of about Gentlemint: we don't really care about how you're tilting your phone, or other apps you have on your phone, etc. There is an incredible push to do this stuff though, mainly because the "Big Guys" do it. I'm not a tin-foil-hat kind of guy, but this stuff is what makes me really disgusted at our industry sometimes.
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Bradleyd16 10 years, 2 months ago
Much appreciated. Thank you. Speaking of apps though, are you guys ever going to make an app?
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glen 10 years, 2 months ago
Working on it as I type this, actually :)
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Bradleyd16 10 years, 2 months ago
Great! I look forward to seeing it come out.
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Chet_Manly 10 years, 2 months ago
I'm sure more guys than just me appreciate your approach. This kind of stuff that FB (and Google IMO) does is why I've never and will never use their product. It annoys me that the NSA does what it does but that one is harder to opt out of. Gentlemint is great though.
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ahnyerkeester 10 years, 2 months ago
I'm so glad that a) when Facebook cut off the message functionality in their app, I just kind of chuckled and used the web version on my phone and b) my wife convinced me that I was staring at Facebook on my phone too much and that I should delete the app all together and therefore, c) I never installed Messenger.
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Bradleyd16 10 years, 2 months ago
My wife decided to delete Facebook off her phone once the app told her it would not work unless she downloaded the messenger app. I'm more and more glad that I decided to delete my account 3 years ago. Facebook is out of control.
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ben.terry 10 years, 2 months ago
When I read this, I can't help but compare this to the NSA. I think these companies are worse.
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