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WireWatch: Measuring the Security of Proprietary Network Encryption in the Global Android Ecosystem - The Citizen Lab

Summary by The Citizen Lab
The Citizen Lab’s Mona Wang, Jeffrey Knockel, and Zoë Reichert, in collaboration with Princeton researchers Prateek Mittal and Jonathan Mayer, co-authored a new paper on the network security of Android apps. Their research found that a large portion of popular Chinese apps use broken proprietary network protocols instead of TLS. The paper, titled “WireWatch: Measuring the security of proprietary network encryption in the global Android ecosystem…
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The Citizen Lab broke the news in on Monday, May 12, 2025.
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