JSanders,
I developed PhoneSnoop to raise awareness that there are companies out there like FlexiSpy and MobileSpy.
They sell their software to the public. Thus, a motivated individual can purchase this software and proceed to spy on people he knows. How would a user know he's infected? He wouldn't unless he used a commercial or free spyware detection/removal tool. How would a user know how this spyware worked? Again he wouldn't unless he spent money on purchasing the spyware himself.
IMHO, there is no point in releasing a spyware removal tool, unless you tell users how the spyware works and what it can do. Lots of the spyware removal products do not detail enough about how a piece of spyware works and what it does. I am hoping to change that by providing PoC tools. I feel that a demo has (and in this case it clearly had) a greater impact than reading a brochure or bullet point list of features.
Kind regards,
Sheran
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