HTC's Sense-skinned phones will blab to just about anyone who asks. Photo Jon Snyder/Wired.com. HTC's skinned version of Android — running on the EVO 4G and Thunderbolt amongst others — has a fatal flaw which will allow any application access to a huge treasure trove of personal information.
The list of available data contains almost everything that happens on your phone and includes GPS location data, phone numbers, SMS data (plain numbers and encoded text), plus a whole lot more.
The problem exists in HTC's custom Sense UI, and is due to logging tools that HTC recently added.
Gadget Lab, HTC Sense Gives Away Personal Data to Any App That Asks
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