Re:“Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“
by UncleMeat on Friday January 31, 2020 @02:33PM
(#22204772)
Open source isn't magic. Closed source isn't a black box.
Reading bytecode is trivial. Reading decompiled binaries is even not so bad. Hiding some tampering of the protocol in closed source clients is not that much easier than hiding it in open source clients. Especially if tens of thousands of engineers have access to the whatsapp source and change history and a deliberate backdoor would be international news.
Reading bytecode is trivial. Reading decompiled binaries is even not so bad. Hiding some tampering of the protocol in closed source clients is not that much easier than hiding it in open source clients. Especially if tens of thousands of engineers have access to the whatsapp source and change history and a deliberate backdoor would be international news.