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by Youngaposthate 15 Replies latest forum tech-support

  • Anony Mous
    Anony Mous

    Put it in an emulator, record what it is trying to do, is it trying to reach a site or transfer large amounts of data? Even if you can’t read it right away (there are tricks for that), you would notice video/audio being fed back to a third party system.

    Generally, recording audio/video is of little interest to a company, there is no way to keep track of it all or index it for anything useful. What is useful is figuring out your patterns of location, purchase etc. Not to the JW but to the ad companies.

    If you’ve ever been involved with or done surveillance on people, you’d find out that going through hours of audio/video is annoyingly boring. Active surveillance is probably the most boring job ever, people aren’t all that interesting, they don’t talk about anything interesting. Even elder meetings and judicial meetings are utterly boring, a synopsis can be made in 3 sentences or paragraphs, most meetings anywhere in the world are just housekeeping and going around following corporate rules.

    DMCA does not apply to reverse engineering and commentary, feel free to do it and post the code on GitHub, as long as you don’t include the binary, it should be fine.

  • fulano
    fulano

    Thanks Anony Mouse. The things one learns here....

  • Diogenesister
    Diogenesister
    E reverse engineering and commentary, feel free to do it and post the code on GitHub, as long as you don’t include the binary, it should be fine.

    can someone explain this in English please? Homeschooling and my sons doing computer science so I’m trying to stay ahead of the game!! What is the young person aiming to do please?

  • Anders Andersen
    Anders Andersen
    What is the young person aiming to do please?

    Deconstruct the KHconf app back to (somewhat) readable code, to see what (hidden?) features and capabilities that app has.

    It's a bit like trying to anaylyze and 'unbake' apple pie to try and find out the recipe and ingredients.

  • Anders Andersen
    Anders Andersen

    Btw the audio recording privileges the app asks for are because it's possible to comment during a meeting with KHconf.

    Hardly anything suspicious for an app designed for.....listening to and commenting during JW meetings...

    The icon next to it (microphone) is used to comment. When you toggle this icon on, the ring turns blue, and your voice is heard across the conference bridge (assuming you used the comment PIN to connect). Tap the microphone again to mute yourself and turn the microphone back off.
  • Anony Mous
    Anony Mous

    Reverse engineering and decompiling is a method of which you turn a computer program back into its original code that a programmer wrote.

    The primary problem is that a lot of metadata (such as comments and function names) are stripped in the process and sometimes the program is optimized to leave out dead code so reverting it won't get you the original code, but a representation of the original code.

    It is legal to decompile code and post it somewhere for "commentary and educational purposes", as long as you don't include the 'binary' (or the final program) that they DO have copyright over and you are not aided by other copyrightable products (eg. the original code) that they likewise have copyright over.

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