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Re:There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor' by akvadrako on Friday January 13, 2017 @06:46PM (#13395799)
Have you ever heard of the obfuscated C contest? Even with the code in front of your face and looking innocent it's hard to see what it does.

When you only have decompiled assembly, obfuscation is much easier.

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Re:There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor' by tptacek on Friday January 13, 2017 @06:52PM (#13395843)
At the binary level, obfuscation is powerful but obvious. Is iOS WhatsApp meaningfully obfuscated?
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Re:There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor' by tedunangst on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:48PM (#13396101)
Considering iOS forbids self modifying code, lots of tricks aren't even available.
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