Uber’s App Is Anything but Malware

This article is terribly written. It reads like a fluff piece written by a lazy junior high school student. Which it very well may be for all I can tell.

To start, it quotes "a blog posted to HN" as a source, and then links to the HN thread, not the blog post itself. That's like quoting a wikipedia article as a primary document. At least link to the actual blog article.

Following that, the author attempts to debunk concerns about Uber's data collection purely by quoting Uber's own PR. He/she wraps up by using some unintroduced 3rd party app to show that your data is secure from mtm attacks. Ugh.

The worst part is, the post that this is attempting to debunk is problematic and greatly flawed. Any time there's one of these freak-outs about what permissions a popular app is granted on people's phones, its almost always way overblown or taken completely out of context. It should be shooting fish in a barrel, but the author completely missed anyway.