Re:WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
by fsflover on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:42AM
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Does it mean that I can create a malicious client without that patch and break the server again?
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Re:WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
by cyphar on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:14PM
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The reason it was a DDoS was that every single Android Signal client in the world was retrying the API without an exponential backoff. If you intentionally try to DDoS the API yourself, then that's just a DDoS and you don't need a custom Signal client for that.