{"id":8083,"date":"2020-05-12T05:54:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T11:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8083"},"modified":"2020-05-12T05:54:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T11:54:21","slug":"the-big-facebook-crash-of-2020-and-the-problem-of-third-party-sdk-creep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8083","title":{"rendered":"The big Facebook crash of 2020 and the problem of third-party SDK creep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rambo.codes\/posts\/2020-05-07-the-big-facebook-crash\">Rambo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know how people are saying these days that it\u2019s dangerous how companies like Apple and Google control their ecosystems, to the point of accusing them of monopoly? I\u2019m not going to dismiss that completely here, but I think we have a much bigger problem that\u2019s been lurking in our apps for several years, unnoticed: third-party SDK creep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s quite possible that every single app you use on any particular day is running code from Facebook, Google and other data-gathering and data-mining companies. Because of the way this code is integrated \u2014 by linking to a dynamic library at build time \u2014 it means these companies can effectively control those apps, or worse, access all of the data those apps have access to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>We saw a demonstration of this power yesterday: it was as if Facebook had an \u201capp kill switch\u201d that they activated, and it brought down many of people\u2019s favorite iOS apps \u2014 Apple\u2019s appocalypse video never felt so real. Of course it was a bug and not something done intentionally, but it highlights the point that they do have control over apps that include their code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Even if you don\u2019t sign in with Facebook in a particular app, the app will run Facebook\u2019s code in the background just for having the SDK included. You don\u2019t need a Facebook account for it to track you either, they can track people very well without one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rambo: You know how people are saying these days that it\u2019s dangerous how companies like Apple and Google control their ecosystems, to the point of accusing them of monopoly? I\u2019m not going to dismiss that completely here, but I think we have a much bigger problem that\u2019s been lurking in our apps for several years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8084,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083\/revisions\/8084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}