Security researcher tears apart White House app and finds a tracking and security nightmare

A security researcher who decompiled the White House's new mobile app says it contains hidden GPS-tracking capabilities, weak security protections, and code loaded from an outside GitHub page, raising serious questions about privacy and cybersecurity. > And it gets even stranger. Apparently, the app is loading JavaScript from a random person's GitHub site for YouTube embeds. — Read the rest The post Security researcher tears apart White House app and finds a tracking and security nightmare appeared first on Boing Boing.