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Spyware Company Leaves 'Terabytes' of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data (vice.com)

Posted by msmash on from the privacy-woes dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Spyfone, a company that sells surveillance software to parents and employers left 'terabytes of data' including photos, audio recordings, text messages and web history, exposed in a poorly-protected Amazon S3 bucket. News outlet Motherboard verified that the researcher could access anyone's data by creating a free account and installing the spyware on a test device. After a few hours, the researcher sent me back a picture I took.

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  1. Re: Notification Disaster by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Parents have admin access to the smartphones.
    2. Parents installs Spyfone.
    3. Parents clicks "accept" on the wall of text they did not read.
    4. Parents give smartphone back to children.
    5. Prof... there is no step five.

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