Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' by tptacek on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @01:12PM (#22120236)

Exactly what is your point? Durov is talking about Signal, not some hypothetical application you came up with to leak keys.

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Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' by bitL on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:16PM (#22122129)

Wasn't he talking about WhatsApp that integrates Signal protocol? Asking if integrating protocol allows the "host" app to leak keys is completely valid.

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Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' by UncleMeat on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:58AM (#22128528)

Again, reading bytecode is not hard. Even reading decompiled binaries isn't very hard. If WhatsApp was leaking keys on the side it wouldn't be too difficult to find, especially given how incredibly high profile it is as a target.

Open source vs closed source is not meaningful here.

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Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince' by bitL on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:29PM (#22130903)

Alright, I got what you meant. Do you know if anyone performed bytecode-level analysis on WhatsApp clients already? Just curious, it's nothing I really need.

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