Howdy ho!
This is one of those interim posts where I’m not posting something cool, but rather something that’s bothering me. You know, like a blog post?
Anyways, I downloaded Uber the other day and its pretty cool and handy. The only qualm I had was with all the permissions it asked for.
You can see the permissions the app wants to use by viewing the “AndroidManifest.xml” file inside the APK. just open the thing with 7zip and view it. Unfortunately doing this will yield garbage data.
An 18-year-old made it into Uber's systems. Uber is currently responding to the incident.
It used the “kill switch” to stop law enforcement from cracking down on the company in Europe.
Uber is really trying to branch out when it comes to different services.
Uninstalled, Goodbye Uber. You're not coming back.