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JRSCCivic98 Hey, look at all the .pk people who registered just to defend the app. :rolleyes:
And honestly, I could care less where you're from. You could be in a garage in my own country and I wouldn't trust an app coming from you. The concern was voiced and is valid BASED ON YOUR TRUSTWORTHY POPULARITY, not your nationality or race or color or sexual orientation for that matter. I don't see enough credible information out there that's easy to find from you guys, so it holds as a valid concern. There's a lot of neferious stealing of data happening behind the scenes via apps on both PCs and mobile devices. People should be made aware of such risks.
Also, Mike, your example of sniffing out the packets and seeing where they go. That's all nice and good if the app was written to always behave the same. What happens if the coder is smart enough to build in a trigger that only starts sending data after the app was installed for several days? Or what if it works by the coder triggering a remote command to the app before it sends the data. Guess what, in those cases, the app traffic would look normal until said time and the people testing it initially would think it's fine and use it... until it was too late.
Ya, that's right, I think outside of the box... because I know how the smart ones think.