• Re: Bug lets anyone bypass WhatsApp's 'View Once' privacy feature

    From D@21:1/5 to Nomen Nescio on Tue Sep 10 14:05:14 2024
    On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:36:21 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio <[email protected]> wrote:
    Once again Mark Fuckerberg screws over those using his crappy services. >https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/09/bug-lets-anyone-bypass-whatsapps-view- >once-privacy-feature/

    (using Tor Browser 13.5.3) https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/09/bug-lets-anyone-bypass-whatsapps-view-once-privacy-feature/
    WhatsApp, the most popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app
    in the world with more than two billion users, allows users to
    exchange pictures and videos that disappear soon after opening.
    ...
    "The only thing that is worse than no privacy, is a false sense
    of privacy in which users are led to believe some forms of
    communication are private when in fact they are not"
    [end quoted snippets]

    it's a magic trick . . .

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  • From Nomen Nescio@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 10 13:36:21 2024
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    Once again Mark Fuckerberg screws over those using his crappy services.

    https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/09/bug-lets-anyone-bypass-whatsapps-view- once-privacy-feature/

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