mSpy is a troubling spy tool that users can install on a smartphone or tablet. Once installed, the app allows others to remotely spy on text messages, call logs, emails and more. Though the Next Web made a big deal about the app, it’s something that most iOS owners can dismiss. Thankfully.
MSpy is marketed as a tool for businesses to monitor their employees and for parents to track their kids. The app enables monitoring tools that go way beyond finding someone’s location. The app allows others to peek into emails, read private messages,access location information and track app usage. If you have an Android device, the app can even be used to record conversations using the device’s built-in microphone.
The app has rave reviews, but it also brings up big questions about privacy and the extent of monitoring that is acceptable within a business or even a family. These are both acceptable scenarios for monitoring — imagine what would happen if the app was used for nefarious purposes.
Thankfully, mSpy should be of little concern to most iOS owners.
Though the software runs on iOS devices, it requires the device to be jailbroken. As many iOS owners know, the latest version of iOS can’t be jailbroken and likely won’t be anytime soon. It’s only compatible with older iPhones as they are ones that are able to run a version of iOS 6 that can be jailbroken. If you own and iPhone 5s or a 5c, then you have nothing to worry about. The same applies to the iPad Air and the retina iPad mini, neither of which are jailbroken.
If do own an older device that’s running a version of iOS 6, then just upgrade to iOS 7 and you won’t have to worry about someone installing mSpy on your device. Are you concerned about mSpy?
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