1. Forum
  2. Usenet
  3. COMP.MOBILE.ANDROID

  • FYI - Network Signal Info - if it's installed - you might want to unins

    From Wally J@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 7 17:30:47 2023
    Just saw this on the Windows newsgroup where if you have installed
    *Network Signal Info* by KAIBITS Software GmbH
    <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.android.telnet>

    You might want to read what they said about it over here:
    <https://blog.appcensus.io/2021/10/25/what-the-huq/>
    --
    Nefarious stuff it seems to be doing (read the report before responding).

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From VanguardLH@21:1/5 to Wally J on Thu Dec 7 18:23:27 2023
    Wally J <walterjones@invalid.nospam> wrote:

    Just saw this on the Windows newsgroup where if you have installed
    *Network Signal Info* by KAIBITS Software GmbH
    <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.android.telnet>

    You might want to read what they said about it over here:
    <https://blog.appcensus.io/2021/10/25/what-the-huq/>

    Dated 2021. No mention they notified Google of possible privacy
    invasion/theft for the apps they found using the Huq API. If they
    really were concerned about privacy, why didn't they report the abuse? Reporting to the general public (that happens to read their article)
    does not mandate Google will investigate and possible ban the apps.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Wally J@21:1/5 to VanguardLH on Thu Dec 7 21:41:58 2023
    VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote

    Wally J <walterjones@invalid.nospam> wrote:

    Just saw this on the Windows newsgroup where if you have installed
    *Network Signal Info* by KAIBITS Software GmbH
    <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.android.telnet>

    You might want to read what they said about it over here:
    <https://blog.appcensus.io/2021/10/25/what-the-huq/>

    Dated 2021. No mention they notified Google of possible privacy invasion/theft for the apps they found using the Huq API. If they
    really were concerned about privacy, why didn't they report the abuse? Reporting to the general public (that happens to read their article)
    does not mandate Google will investigate and possible ban the apps.

    Hi Vanguard,

    Your suspicions are perfectly valid as we know nothing more than what's in
    the article. Luckily I tested all the free ad free network monitors and
    wrote about it in the past, where this is my current set I'm testing.
    <https://i.postimg.cc/CxdfBVg4/wifi.jpg>

    Probably only one out of a thousand people will note in that article that
    many apps were correlating the unique Android ID with the Advertising ID
    (even when the Advertising ID was supposedly changed by the users).

    All I'm doing is letting people know what is out there - but I have no
    special access to information so I hope others can find out more than I.
    --
    And no, it's _not_ an honest mistake (which is impossible to happen).

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)