Uber’s Android app is not ‘literally malware’, despite what you may have read
Nov27
A single blog post sparked a strange, worrying headline this week: “Uber’s app is literally malware,” proclaimed a thread on Hacker News. Despite the blog post itself being oddly inflammatory, a number of media outlets have picked up the story’s claims that Uber may send unnecessary amounts of data back from your phone, like your private SMS’ and images stored on your phone. Let’s nip this one in the bud: it’s incredibly unlikely that Uber’s app is any kind of malware, and from our investigations, the worries in the original post are unfounded. The majority of the permissions listed in the post that calls the…
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