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Cirlig and Agnese had run their tests using their own HTTPS certificate, which meant they could easily decrypt HTTPS data. [ Correction : Agnese reached out to us after this story was published to point out that the data being transmitted by the iOS version of the UC browser was indeed encrypted because it went out over a standard secure browser-to-server HTTPS connection. On Android, the data was both compressed and encrypted, although Cirlig and Agnese found a decryption key buried in the UC browser app's source code. On iOS, the personal data was compressed but not encrypted before it was transmitted to the Chinese servers, meaning anyone who intercepted the traffic could read it.
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The pair discovered that the UC browser was a bit "better" about how it handled this sensitive information on Android than it was on iOS, regardless of the fact that this sort of data collection shouldn't be happening at all. Here's a YouTube video of data being harvested from the UC browser running in Incognito Mode from an emulated phone.
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With all this information, users can be tracked and monitored both physically and across the internet, a far cry from the "perfectly private and secret" experience promised.įorbes had Cirlig and Agnese's findings verified by Andrew Tierney, a well-regarded British security reseacher. It also sends a unique proprietary device ID that seems to be specific to the UC browser, which Cirlig noted "could easily fingerprint users and tie them back to their real personas."
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Working with Argentina-based researcher Nicolas Agnese, Cirlig found that the UC browser hoovers up a phone's network-interface ID (MAC address), phone hardware ID (IMEI), phone serial number, OS version, phone type, browsing history, search queries, IP address and time zone, sending it all to Chinese-registered servers even when in incognito mode on iOS or Android. Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden showed that Canadian intelligence found in the early 2010's that the UC browser leaked a lot of sensitive data, behavior that continued until at least 2015. However, the browser has long been regarded as rather snoopy.
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Forbes' Thomas Brewster noted that UC had many users in India until that country banned dozens of Chinese apps in mid-2020 following a deadly border skirmish between the two nations. A 2018 Wall Street Journal piece said UC was "dethroning Google in Asia" outside China.