Sex toy company Lovense admits its Android app locally stored audio recordings

Re:Sex toy company Lovense admits its Android app locally st... by whatshisface on Friday November 10, 2017 @07:55PM (#15674367)

The Godfather's Switchblade:

Make it look like an accident.

Ultimately I don't think we can judge intent in situations like these, especially because it's so easy to disguise[0]. A sentence can be constructed in favor of any opinion; so I'll spare you my attempt at an alternate reading of the situation that makes them sound guilty so long as you agree that it's possible to do.

I think a few questions can be raised about whether we can trust a company's claim that a problem stops exactly at the limits of what's been made publicly visible. How do we really know that select installations weren't phoning home with their captures?

This is a great moment to plug the idea that we really should be able to see the source code of the software we're running.

[0] http://www.underhanded-c.org/

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Re:Sex toy company Lovense admits its Android app locally st... by banku_brougham on Friday November 10, 2017 @08:47PM (#15674544)

This is very good. The parent comment is very reasonable, but your switchblade admits the possibility of aonethig very concerning which is not easily dismissed.

They did post a bug fix though.

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Re:Sex toy company Lovense admits its Android app locally st... by metaobject on Friday November 10, 2017 @08:53PM (#15674564)

Well, why wouldn't they post a bug fix? I don't see how that says anything about motive/cause. They'd do that even if it was intentional.

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