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Owners of Android smartphones are being warned to avoid public WiFi networks after researchers found a security flaw that could affect the vast majority of devices based on Google’s software.

A trio of researchers at Ulm University in Germany found that it was “quite easy” for hackers to intercept data from Google’s photo-sharing, calendar and contacts applications, as well as potentially other Google services such as Gmail, using a flaw that affects 99 per cent of all Android devices.

KPN is under fire in the Netherlands for using deep packet inspection to figure out who’s using WhatsApp.

At some point in the near future somebody is going to build a handset that uses Tor for everything network related…