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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone monitoring popular apps to check if the... by dylan604 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:57AM (#28585350)
How do you distinguish the, assumed, encrypted transmission from a foreground app sending this data compared to just requesting an update for the app's viewport?
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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone monitoring popular apps to check if the... by hutzlibu on Monday September 20, 2021 @04:00AM (#28591310)
With a fully reversed engeneered app, this would be possible. But I believe the effort for this is quite high. And with obfuscation even higher.
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