I don’t have a modern enough phone for the app, and I don’t know if this is valid, but here is the claim.
Cybersecurity Expert Gary Miliefsky on Bret Baier, Fox News
Quite simply every app provides a method for data to leak. Many free/cheap apps do use that data as part of their revenue stream; it can be as simple as using data not relevant to the app itself to serve targeted ads. Some us it as part of their core functionality and some just do it as part of their revenue stream.
What you need to do is don’t get an apple product.
After that, only get an android device that can “rooted.”
Once you have gained administrator rights over the phone, you can install firewall. This will prevent any apps from reporting home with data. They may collect it, but it cannot leave the phone.
Also, you can then install privacy data scramblers so that when a” free flashlight app” needs to access your call log and your text messages and your address book, it’s fed fake data. But the data cannot leave the phone because firewall from above.
Or you can jailbrake an iPhone and get a firewall
read up on what’s happening to the phones and other devices used by the demonstrators in Hong Kong.
This is an unfolding story, much more likely to come out over time.
This is a situation where thousands of people are being exposed to — and perhaps will find and report on — a lot of different compromises.
https://www.google.com/search?q=android+root+china+hong+kong+protest+phone
There is no way in hell I will ever do pay by phone, NFS payments, this is only one reason.
I have my Wi-fi off, tracking off. NFS off.
I sold cell phones for 10 years and personally I hate the “smartphones”
The networks have enough trouble routing a call , let alone be trusted with banking/CC data.
The call quality sucks, crap signal, drains when not in 4g, etc.
Y’all can have the gizmos, I just need the freaking thing to make a call. and see some radar.
Rant off.
IOS is specifically designed not to allow root access to the device.
Yes your could “jailbreak” an iPhone 4 but guess what… There won’t be no jailbreakin the 6.
Need to gain control over the device you’re suppose to “own”.
Root
AFwall+
xposed installer
xprivacy installer
If your not into tweaking, modding, computer stuff then just buy a nexus device. Rooting is easy on nexus. Other devices vary. Search for rooting info on xda-developers.com before buying a non-nexus device.
I wouldn’t bet on that. They said that about all the previous iphones… typical time to jailbreak a new release is 45-90 days.
NFC?
Nebraska fried chicken 
Near-Field Communication (or a slang word for fecal matter in the first case, I suspect)
It lets your phone activate badge readers. And lets the rest of us suck your data off just by standing near you.
If you thought Bluetooth was bad, NFC is actually designed to push your data aggressively to another device.
The question in Bluetooth and NFC is, WHAT data? Imagine someone standing next to your high-secure facility door, busily thumbing their tweets (or so it seems), when you NFC your PIN to the badge reader, you, in essence, just gave them a copy of your door key. It’s not just about data security anymore, folks. That faux-tweeter could walk in behind you as if they belonged there, and anyone monitoring the badge reader would just think you accidentally double-tapped it.
Same goes for your credit card numbers — enough to take money from you. Ostensibly it’s for vendors, but how will the bank know you didn’t just buy something from me, after your “smart” phone NFCs me your complete banking information and I post a charge??
At least with Bluetooth it takes a moment or two to stand up the connection, and then the thief would have to go through your phone looking for data. NFC pumps it out!
Oh, they’ll TELL you it’s “secure”… But then, they told you the Internet was “secure” too, didn’t they? Has anyone here NOT had your password or personal data stolen?
Best defense? No Be There. Keep your “smart” phone sterile and do your “tweeting” at home like a non-zombie should, if you must “tweet”. If you have to get past a badge reader, get a passive RFID badge or fob. Pay at the cash register and don’t let anyone else hold your credit/debit card. Don’t do business on our Internet — or only make arrangements and build relationships online & use a physically secure method of payment. If a web site insists on personal data, LIE.
Remember, locks don’t keep honest people honest. HONOR keeps honest people honest; locks just make you believe you’re secure so you can get to sleep at night.
Speaking of which…
I know what NFC means, I was wondering if Muto meant that instead of NFS.
Yes, as I said, I think he was aberrating it to “Near Field Schnitzel” But “Schnitzel After” since I knew there might be young buckaroos reading…
I use nfc all the time, when you can get it to read the data from a tag etc, has a max range of about 5 mm max, normally more like 1 to 2 mm range on all the smart phones I’ve used it on, much the same on dedicated programming devices too. It’s not like bluetooth range wise.
So if someone was trying to use nfc to steal your data or get your door access code, you’d pretty dam soon notice (I don’t even let my girlfriend get that close to my phone 
) so I wouldn’t be too concerned by someone standing nearby pretending to tweet or whatever when you open your door or whatever
Yeah android noticed, you have to be very proactive… You should run a app to shutdown all but key files required to run your phone every time it sleeps. Manually update. The former allows you to stop apps that suck the battery too. It takes awhile but after rooting you should be able to have a nice setup.
The thing is everyone is installing everything… They have all this malware on their phone and then complain about battery life, ect… You can get 2 days out of a typical android if you comb through top (running apps) and installed programs. See what is using cpu. He’s right though there’s so many people who should get an apple phone, because they vet the software.
Thing that most don’t like about apple… No cool apps like Redphone. Writing an app for apple on ios? Good luck getting it approved. Like if you wanted to write a obscene app that might gain some traction with the younger crowd, it’s not going to be accepted.
Nothing new though. I mean look at all the people in starbucks on free wifi. Any open wifi you might as well be yelling whatever your doing on the phone/laptop through a megaphone. You can even mass own everyone on the wifi by redirecting their browser to your apache server from whatever url they go to and telling thier browser to disregard what’s coming from the legit ap. Or block just certain people, or everyone on the network. It’s not just free wifi either. Man in the middle and even spoof ssl connections. With breakable default passwords for routers- like take for instance AT&T. All their routers even Uverse have an all numeric password. That comes to 10 billion combinations to break it 100% of the time. One ati/amd gpu can break that in less than 40 hours. Dictionary attacks get a lot of the ‘my name is secure’ crowd. Then there’s WPS enabled routers- which even the newer routers still use and comes default. That’s owned by reaver in a few hours time depending on how you attack it.
And then there’s wep. A kid on a tricycle can break it, even newer versions when someones on, you can spoof their mac and still inject packets for data.
Apple cloud service shows how even celebrities can’t understand a thing about how security works. I was into it for quite awhile, got my ccna. Anyone can write an app for android with google free tools.
I’m just gald I’m done with it. It’s a cat mouse game that will never end. And with computers getting more powerful it may get to the point where it doesn’t matter how long your password is.
Great advice, if you know what you are doing. Horrible advice if you don’t, particularly with the amount of Android malware lurking out there.
Quick google, University of Surrey researchers intercepted NFC at 60cm (about 2 ft) with near 100% accuracy using cheap, basic equipment. Various other teams have done it at a distance of up to 6 metres.
Yea, nothing to worry about there.
With the right antenna, you can listen to a tiny solar-powered robot crawling around on another planet. If you’re only getting a few mm, maybe you’re talking to a device with a broken/bad/low-gain antenna…
The badge readers I’ve installed lately have a read zone the size of a racquetball. Since it doesn’t have to charge the RFID chip, the NFC range is somewhat greater.
Another thing they didn’t tell you about Bluetooth is, if I’m eavesdropping on your cellphone conversation, I can only hear one side of the conversation unless I’m lucky enough to get the other channel during initiation. Bluetooth lets me hear both sides, with cheaper equipment, any time I listen.
Maybe I’ll invent a “Personal Faraday Cage”… With a femto-cell inside so you can still make calls…
With anything you RF out, your only “privacy” is dependent on whether or not anyone’s listening. Just like on the Internet.