I challenged cybersecurity expert Ken Munro and his colleague David Lodge from Pen Test Partners to see whether it was physically possible for an app to snoop in this way.
Could something “listen in” at will without it being obvious?
The key word here is “could.”
Molgrips is on the ball here. Could it? sure. But is it?
All (many) other things aside, if this were the case then they’d have been busted by now. It really is that simple. I would expect apprentice-level engineers to notice this sort of network traffic, let alone industry experts.
Ken Munro, incidentally, is a leading cybersecurity authority in the field of teledildonics. I’ll leave that to your googling but it’s exactly what it sounds like and it’s frankly terrifying.