08-24-2019 , 10:25 PM
Quote:It’s about the time of year when well-intended resolutions fall by the wayside.
Don’t beat yourself up, though. You might feel like a big fat failure, but you probably just didn’t pick the right resolutions. While that promise to hit the gym five days a week seemed both reassuring and eminently plausible as you sat at the Christmas dinner table shoveling chocolate and meat into your mouth, it’s really not a sustainable goal.
To make yourself feel better, why not swap out your resolutions and go for something easier to achieve, but with equally wonderous positives?
That’s right! The VPN company is about to suggest ways to improve your life with privacy and security resolutions. Settle in, then, here we go.
1. Angry Birds
If you were an international spying organization, which app would you target to harvest smartphone user information?
If you picked Angry Birds, congratulations! You’re thinking just like the NSA and GCHQ did.
Released in 2009 and sitting on more than 2 billion downloads, Angry Birds was perhaps the first mobile game to hit the big time. And what it lacks in gameplay, it certainly makes up for in leaky data.
Ed Snowden himself claimed the app was siphoning data, but it wasn’t until news hit that international intelligence agencies were using it to collect information that people really took notice.
A mobile ad platform placed a code snippet in Angry Birds that allowed the company to target advertisements to users based on previously collected information. Unfortunately, the ad’s library of data was visible, meaning it was leaking user information such as phone number, call logs, location, political affiliation, sexual orientation, and marital status. No wonder the NSA was all over it.
If you believe the developers, it seems that newer versions of Angry Birds aren’t quite as vulnerable as their forefathers, so if you must shoot pigs with chickens, make sure you update the app.
2. The YouVersion Bible App
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