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118 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker 28 Mar \ on: I Decompiled the White House's New App news tech

Just to play devil's advocate, they make it sound really scary, but how many apps do we use daily that violate the same security practices?

And if you thought to yourself, "well this is an official government app we expect better", well I have news for you!

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116 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 28 Mar

None? Review your apps.

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205 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 28 Mar

If it's none, that's good to know too. But just telling me to review my apps isn't helpful because not everyone has the ability to do that.

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116 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 28 Mar

Its a problem, yes. So how do we fix it? There's the F-droid model where things get flagged up that are "anti-features", but I wonder how many people actually read it?

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181 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby OP 29 Mar

For a while, I was using Calyx, and the default install includes an fdroid that did something like this, but it seemed to find anti-features in pretty much every app. I didn't find it terribly useful.

i don't install many apps, so if I'm installing something it's because I'm pretty sure I need it. I really only want to know if there's a major problem.

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81 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby OP 28 Mar

Good points. When I was trying to find this app in the app store, I came across a TSA-Pre app and it made me wonder if anyone had done a similar audit of it...

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