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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by gcb0 on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @09:59PM (#16541936)
If you want to get paranoid... Maybe it can detect jailbreak and do nothing. or even better, detect jail break, use it to detect if there is hooks into the audioRecord interface, if no hooks, record even more with it's new found powers :)
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by adtac on Thursday March 08, 2018 @09:43AM (#16544578)
This is straight up malware behaviour.
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by Sargos on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:06PM (#16547216)
Which is why it doesn't do that.
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by dest on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:03AM (#16543044)
It reminds me the amazing Skype protections against reverse engineering
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by andai on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:48AM (#16543197)
Could you remember a little harder?
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by zero_iq on Thursday March 08, 2018 @05:53AM (#16543599)
All sorts of anti-debugging tricks, self modifying code, runtime checksums, network traffic obfuscation, etc.

http://www.secdev.org/conf/skype_BHEU06.handout.pdf

http://runtux.com/files/download/skype.4.pdf

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