Computer scientist and blogger Szymon Sidor has exposed a loophole in Android that lets creative hackers spy on users through their devices' cameras without the victims noticing anything. There are apps on the Play Store that try to take photos without alerting the user, but all of them require visible app activity and the phone screen to be turned on. In the name of computer science, Sidor tried to see how far down the rabbit hole of spying apps can go.Knowing that using the camera on Android to take photos and record video requires a preview to be displayed on screen, but it doesn't ...
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