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Re:SS7 MITM Attack Against WhatsApp and Telegram by ashitlerferad on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @09:07PM (#11671952)
Source code is pretty useless when it is running on a proprietary platform on a device with a secondary chip running a buggy proprietary OS that has an always-on high-speed wireless network connection.

If you are using a mobile phone you have already lost in the security stakes.

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Re:SS7 MITM Attack Against WhatsApp and Telegram by geocar on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:53AM (#11673389)
That's why providing the keys (or better: being able to supply my own) is essential.
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Re:SS7 MITM Attack Against WhatsApp and Telegram by ultramancool on Friday May 13, 2016 @11:16AM (#11690850)
You can do that if you really want, it takes about 10s of reverse engineering work to read or swap the keys. Won't do you any good though unless you constantly MITM yourself.
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Re:SS7 MITM Attack Against WhatsApp and Telegram by geocar on Friday May 13, 2016 @05:01PM (#11693214)
How exactly do I download my keys from WhatsApp?
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