Flutterby™! : Cell phone privacy

So you probably knew that More than 20,000 apps auto-root Android devices:

Lookout detected more than 20,000 samples of the trojanised adware disguised as legitimate top applications that include Facebook, Candy Crush, Twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp and others. Malicious actors repackage and inject malicious code into very many popular applications discovered in Google Play, then later publish them to third-party app stores. Lookout believes many of the apps are fully functional.

Although, to be fair, so far most of this is occurring in those third-party app stores, but it is reason to be skeptical of your device. However...

Also in phone security news today... Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC. I've heard rumblings of this, but http://www.silverpush.co/#!/uab is claiming to listen via libraries embedded in various applications on your phone to signals played in the audio tracks to ads on various other devices, like television and desktop computers, to link those sources to you...

I can put a Post-It™ over my cell phone's cameras, but... How much for a hard mic switch on my next phone?

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