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Re:Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN by saagarjha on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @07:11PM (#19031270)
AFAIK, yes. You would have to modify the application itself to disable certificate pinning.
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Re:Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN by gcbw2 on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @07:14PM (#19031295)
you have root. Might be inconvenient but hardly impossible to modify files to drop your own pinned cert in other binaries.
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Re:Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN by saagarjha on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @07:17PM (#19031326)
As I've mentioned elsewhere in other threads, this app doesn't actually obtain root access (that is, it's not a jailbreak); the article/title is confusing a "root certificate" with "root access".
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