Re:Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp?
by inimino on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:22AM
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> You [can] decompile and see for yourself what it does.
Assuming your device allows you to get the binary. Apple is already in a position to disallow this if they choose to in the future.
> Assuming your device allows you to get the binary. Apple is already in a position to disallow this if they choose to in the future.
Theses kinds of thing never stopped anyone. Being the first to share a hash of a system file in a console is always an achievement that many hackers tend race to do when a new one is released.
For sure the harder it is, the less person will do it, thus the more theses things will be able to go under the radar, but for now it's not so much an issue.
If this is done client side, it doesn't boils down to that. You can easily decompile and see for yourself what it does. You will gain quite a bit of notoriety if you are the first one to catch them too.
As he said:
> if we ever did it would be quite obvious and detectable that we had done it.