1. Man in the middle proxy.
https://mitmproxy.org/
2. Protocol buffers - google’s data interchange format (2008).
https://github.com/google/protobuf
3. Meet the machines that steal your phone’s data — ars technica (2013).
http://tinyurl.com/o9vd4u9
4. Schneier on security: How the nsa attacks tor/firefox users with quantum and foxacid (2013).
http://tinyurl.com/n84axpz
5. For sale: Systems that can secretly track where cellphone users go around the globe - the washington post (2014).
http://tinyurl.com/kuazdjs