Google's Disco is an iOS Trojan Horse

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by rwwmike • 15 years ago

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rwwmike4• 15 years ago

Actually curious on this point - is there an app for jailbroken iPhones to see what data is being sent out from your phone? A simple way? Packet sniffer with your phone's IP?

lpgauth2• 15 years ago

If you connect over wifi, you can easily sniff the packets from your router.

adolph• 15 years ago

See Andy Baio's "How I Indexed The Daily" for information about using a proxy to monitor/inspect traffic from a device similar to an iPhone.

http://waxy.org/2011/02/how_i_indexed_the_daily/

lpgauth2• 15 years ago

Is this app worth a download?

Is there any iOS app out there that come close to BBM? It seems that all the one I tried were very buggy.

rwwmike4• 15 years ago

Never used BBM, but have been pretty happy with both Beluga and GroupMe...though I'd say GroupMe is the one to go with, as Beluga got bought by Facebook.

bryanlarsen• 15 years ago

From reading the article, it seems that it isn't, yet. The posited theory is that Android will eventually include the app in its default install, so at that point it might be worth installing if most of your friends are Android users. Until then, skip it.

rwwmike4• 15 years ago

(Yeah, totally not worth it.)

_djo_• 15 years ago

I've had good experiences with WhatsApp. Plus, it has become popular enough over here that most of the regular BBM users I know have WhatsApp installed as well.

apperoid• 15 years ago

I've heard Kik (http://www.kik.com/ works great.

Kylekramer• 15 years ago

This assumes a lot about a pretty mundane app. It seems more like Google is letting Slide do its own thing within the company. It was only acquired half a year ago, I'd be shocked if this is a precursor to a feature baked into Android.

rwwmike4• 15 years ago

Would you, really? I think that Google has to do something to get into the ring on this one. Facebook bought Beluga. Google's just gonna stand by and do nothing?

TillE• 15 years ago

You're talking about a category of application which very few people are even using at the moment. Both Facebook and Google buy a lot of companies.

They're not "doing nothing", they're letting a small team try to develop something, which seems a perfectly appropriate reaction. How often has Google jumped into a totally new category with any real conviction? They half-heartedly launched Buzz long after Twitter was a hit, they killed Wave, etc.

andos• 15 years ago

Yes, exactly. I was mentally enumerating all the meanings of the Trojan Horse allegory and wondering why this has anything to do with iOS in particular. Yet, I cat't see what the point of the OP is. It reads like the script of a horror movie missing the last ten pages.

Google pricked the group messaging territory with a little incomplete flag. Anything else I'm missing?

tobylane• 15 years ago

You shouldn't say trojan horse in the computer field, it has too many connotations.

Interesting idea, but with msn, gtalk, facebook and the hopefully-still-upcoming BBM, multi-network clients should rule.

Google's Disco is an iOS Trojan Horse

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