provide free solutions to activists, journalists, defenders of human rights, NGOs and persons at risk to protect against targeted cyber attacks “ensures the website of the Civil Sphere, who reported in a post that the application developed by the Government of Buenos Aires ‘BA how come’ filtered data unencrypted from the users and anyone with access to the apppuede traffic to get them.
The application that facilitates tours by bike, transportation public and walk during all CABA, has more than 1,000,000 users. The conflict is generated when the user puts the location where you want to split and direction you want to go. There the application “all data are transferred in text clear through the network”. As it ensures the publication of Civil Sphere “each written letter is sent in a new application that allows to analyze the behavior of the user and profile”. In addition, by the pattern of writing that uses the app “is possible to determine who the user is.”
In addition, the application filters the ‘location’ user when it may decide to use this option. ‘How come BA’ offers write the departure location or choose the ‘current location’. “Its exact location is sent even when the text written in the fields” to: “and” from: “it is not your current location,” claim in the Civil Sphere post.
And end with the following message, at the same time recommending removing the application: “If you are an individual at risk due to the type of work performed or people who help, is important to understand that any small information that leaking can put it at risk. “We carry mobile phones wherever we go, and it is important to understand that they can put us at risk”
