Update: As if the story below wasn't bad enough, later the same day I suddenly got a persistent popup for a "Charging Screensaver" that also, miraculously, promised to increase charging time by 20% ...
A hidden web server always running in the background was found by security researcher Robert Baptiste in ES File Explorer, an Android file manager with over 100,000,000 installs displayed on the ...
Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...
Why is one of the most popular Android apps running a hidden web server in the background? ES File Explorer claims it has more than 500 million downloads under its belt since 2014, making it one of ...
Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...
ES File Explorer is a free-to-use file manager for Android. It is a very popular application and comes with a lot of features apart from simple file management. And one of these features is the ...
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