Chinese communist party’s app is reportedly spying on its 100M users

Chinese communist party’s app is reportedly spying on its 100M users
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2019-10-14 09:12

A report from the German cybersecurity firm Cure53 suggests the Chinese communist party’s app, Study the Great Nation,  has ‘superuser’ access to over 100 million Android devices. It notes the app has a backdoor through which the government can access messages, photos, contacts, and internet browsing history of these handsets.

When a researcher at the agency inspected the app, they found coders have ‘deliberately used’ weak encryption in functions like mail and biometric authentication. Plus, it stores files on the phone’s storage in a way other apps can read data from them. This is dangerous if the government has other apps…

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