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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by logicallee on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @06:27PM (#16540959)
how have you checked (what do you have access to). if you work for Googe on Android would be a good answer for example :)
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by traek on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @06:40PM (#16541025)
From his bio:

> information security research. ceo @ sudo security group (https://verify.ly).

> previously: founder of "Chronic Dev Team" responsible for many years of iOS jailbreaking solutions (24kPwn, absinthe, corona, greenpois0n, etc).

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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by logicallee on Thursday March 08, 2018 @06:59AM (#16543804)
I still think "how have you checked" is a fair question.
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by willstrafach on Thursday March 15, 2018 @05:27PM (#16596663)
My company collects/analyzes apps from the App Store to test their security, so I have pretty easy access to the machine code for apps.

Certainly a fair question.

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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by maccam94 on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:39PM (#16541587)
On the Android side, it's not terribly difficult to send a copy of the app to a computer and decompile it. Then you can simply search for any code that invokes the Android function for mic access.
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