A surprising amount of mobile data still crosses the Internet unencrypted, and a new free app is designed to show users what isn’t protected.

The program, called Datapp, comes from the University of New Haven’s Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group (UNHcFREG), which last year showed popular Android applications such as Instagram, Grindr and OkCupid failed to safely store or transmit data.

The reaction to that study prompted the group to create an application where people could test for themselves which applications don’t encrypt data and exactly what is exposed, said Ibrahim Baggili, UNHcFREG’s director.

There are many security tools that can collect wireless data traffic, but they’re usually designed for people with some technical background. Datapp is essentially a traffic “sniffer,” along the lines of network traffic analysis tool Wireshark, but much simpler.

“Think of it as Wireshark with an access point for dummies,” Baggili said.

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