Smartphones are becoming less secure and vulnerable to attacks from hackers. There are apps out there that secretly steal your contact info, text messages and web history. A company by the name of lookout did a search on nearly 300,000 apps and about half of them turned out to be data collecting apps. The main problem is mobile devices because they do not have a firewall, especially apple devices, they do not currently support any firewall software unlike computers. When an app is published it is supposed to be checked by apple and sometimes apple just let's it through. The developer may not even know that there is spy coding inside an app which they have created which can be dangerous.
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