Thousands of Android apps reveal private App-develeloper keys

[phitsc]

With a tool called PlayDrone developed at Columbia University it was possible to reveal secret keys of thousands of Android apps. With these keys it was even possible to access private data of users of these apps.

http://thehackernews.com/2014/06/playdrone-reveals-thousands-of-secret.html

[ewemoa]

Thanks for sharing.

I failed to locate much more regarding this so I'm left wondering about specifics.  Did you have any luck?

Update: The following looked more detailed:

  https://github.com/nviennot/playdrone

[phitsc]

If you are very curious you can find the full report here

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh/pubs/sigmetrics2014_playdrone.pdf

[ewemoa]

Thanks -- I think that's almost the same as what I found at github:

  http://viennot.com/playdrone.pdf

The file sizes are quite close.