■■■■■ 🇨🇳 WireWatch: Measuring the security of proprietary network encryption in the global Android ecosystem.
How secure are the apps on your Android phone?
Researchers at the Citizen Lab and Princeton evaluated the network security of Android apps & found that a large portion of popular Chinese apps use broken proprietary network protocols instead of TLS.
https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/sp/2025/223600d916/26hiVQjbZqE