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Chinese-made drone app in Google Play spooks security researchers
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https://arstechnica.com/information-tech...searchers/          Chinese-made drone app in Google Play spooks security researchers
DJI Go 4, installed more than 1 million times, can execute arbitrary code.

Dan Goodin - 7/24/2020, 8:51 AM
The Android version of DJI Go 4—an app that lets users control drones—has until recently been covertly collecting sensitive user data and can download and execute code of the developers’ choice, researchers said in two reports that question the security and trustworthiness of a program with more than 1 million Google Play downloads.

The app is used to control and collect near real-time video and flight data from drones made by China-based DJI, the world's biggest maker of commercial drones. The Play Store shows that it has more than 1 million downloads, but because of the way Google discloses numbers, the true number could be as high as 5 million. The app has a rating of three-and-a-half stars out of a possible total of five from more than 52,000 users.     Oh no Eek Peep Shocked
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