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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by lucideer on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @06:43PM (#16541048)
> On the other hand, facebook can check (at least on IOS) easily if the device is jailbroken and behave differently.

I'm not 100% sure what's involved in jailbreaking iOS, but I'm pretty sure on a rooted Android you could put measures in place to "fake" results for any root checks the Facebook app would run. You could patch any APIs Facebook could use to make such checks.

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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by userbinator on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:36PM (#16541577)
Indeed, that's the whole point of having "root" --- to have complete control over the device and what the applications on it see.

It is a bit of a cat and mouse game, but as the long history of software cracking shows, as long as they still own the machine, the crackers always have the upper hand.

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