Sneaky snake game spies on Android owners
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An Android game called Tapsnake could be used to spy on the movements of smartphone users according to insecurity outfit Symantec. The free game, which uses the same basic game elements as the original 70s arcade game Tron and a thousand snake-based clones, appears to be harmless but the bug-busting outfit has discovered that the Android OS app actually gathers GPS data on the location of the handset and reports it to another application called GPS Spy. The paid-for...
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