Researchers craft Android app that reveals to find horrific menagerie of hidden spyware; legally barred from doing the same with iOS

[ficuswhisperer]

@Kevin_Slattery

I believe the breaking of security features would come in when the researchers’ app attempts to monitor the use of public APIs and SDKs by other apps - i.e., breaking out of the sandbox to see what the other apps are up to.

You don’t need to do this on-device, though. You can set up a proxy like Fiddler or WireShark as a MITM to see what’s being sent. Obviously this will only help you when the trackers actually phone home, but it’s not like this is impossible to monitor without breaking out of the sandbox.