Re:Whatsapp: Video Calling
by davidbielen on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @07:18AM
(#12957405)
how about: create a website with a random string in the URL, send that URL via whatsapp combined with content that likely triggers many safety bells (at facebook, whatsapp, nsa,...) to a contact, and make sure that contact does not open the URL.
create a second website (same domain) with a different URL, also with a random string, and use this to compare.
check if first URL gets a hit, and if yes, check if second URL gets same hit.
(spoiler alert: first URL will get a hit, second won't ;-D)
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Re:Whatsapp: Video Calling
by Guest98123 on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:05AM
(#12957617)
Don't must of these services (Skype, Facebook, WhatsApp), load the URL to fetch a thumbnail, page title, and page description, to show in the chat window instead of just the URL?
Re:Whatsapp: Video Calling
by davidbielen on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:08AM
(#12957635)
just compare the time the message was opened on the target client with the server-hit(s) for that URL..
The content is encrypted between you and the receiver. If you didn't hit the URL and the recipient didn't hit the URL, how did someone else hit the URL which was encrypted in the transmission?