We reverse engineered 16k apps, here’s what we foundby@fallible
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We reverse engineered 16k apps, here’s what we found

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In Nov’16, we created an [online tool] to reverse engineer any android app to look for secrets. Out of 16,000 apps, most of the apps didn’t have any sort of key or secret in it. Roughly 2500 apps were found to have either a key or a secret of a third party service hardcoded.

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