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gelin / weather-notification

An utility which displays the weather in the Android notification bar
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Leak of GPS data on TCP port 7000 #52

Open gelin opened 6 years ago

gelin commented 6 years ago

Original report by jiwopene (Bitbucket: jiwopene, GitHub: jiwopene).

When GPS permission is allowed for this app, at TCP port 7000 of the device are periodically sent some (probably NMEA) text data.

Android 7.0

gelin commented 6 years ago

Original comment by Denis Nelubin (Bitbucket: gelin, GitHub: gelin).

The app sends the current device location as a part of the requests to api.openweathermap.org. It's necessary to provide the local weather info.

I don't know anything about the port 7000 and NMEA. You have all the sources, you can check.