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HTC Android handsets spew private data to ANY app

Posted on October 3, 2011July 2, 2025 by Dissent

Bill Ray writes:

A data logger pushed out by HTC to Android handsets has opened up a vulnerability allowing any app with internet permissions to access private customer information.

The vulnerability was spotted by Trevor Eckhart, who informed HTC about it and waited five days for a response. Following that he decided to go public and gave Android Police the details along with demonstration code and a video showing how an application that is supposed to see almost nothing can now see almost everything.

Read more on The Register.

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