Hacker News new | comments | show | ask | jobs | submit login What the hell Uber? Uncool bro (gironsec.com) 143 points by uptown 1 hour ago | 61 comments dmix 49 minutes ago | link TLDR : Uber's Android app is literally malware Since the website is currently down, this person reverse-engineered Uber's Android app and discovered it has code that will "call home" aka send data back to Uber with your: - SMS list - call history - wifi connections - GPS location - every type of device fingerprint possible (device IDs) It also checks if you're phone is rooted/jailbroken and if it's vulnerable to Heartbleed... which it also calls home. From my understanding, which the author somehow missed, is that it is using http://www.inauth.com SDK which provides 'malware detection'. This SDK is popular in the 'mobile finance industry' and the banking sector. Also notably one of the founders is former...