On 06/10/2014 05:03 PM, Tom Ritter wrote:
I just want to jump in and mention again that it's entirely possible to pick apart applications written for Android, iPhone, Windows, Mac, etc and understand how they operate. Going even deeper than just 'what they store on disk' and 'what they send on the wire'. It requires a little bit of technological know-how, but places one could look for that expertise are organizations' technologists, the computer security group at one's university, many of the people on this mailing list, groups like Citizen Lab, and just following tutorials online and learning it yourself.
You forgot to explicitly address the _ease_ of picking apart free software vs. proprietary apps.
I think the "coffee break bug spotters" on this list implicitly address the ease of picking apart free software when the source is publicly accessible.
I think you implicitly addressed the ease of picking apart proprietary apps by writing about possibilities instead of actually picking this one apart during a coffee break.
(Just to be clear-- I'm talking about picking apart what the software actually does, not picking apart what somebody claims it does.)
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