Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones

Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones by hudixt on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:57AM (#26889752)

I had done same thing around this in 2019. This doesn't stop at this.

There were quite correlation that I was able to find with basic setup

The results can be quite horrifying as you can predict plethora of things.

- When is someone sleeping.

- When they're working,etc.

- If two person are talking to each other in closed group.

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Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones by gsich on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @11:44AM (#26891149)

Did something similar in 2015, there was even an open-source program to do it with graphical statistics:

https://maikel.pro/blog/en-whatsapp-privacy-options-are-illu...

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Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones by jorislacance on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:57PM (#26892240)

Nice work !

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Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones by gsich on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:45PM (#26893812)

Not mine if that was not clear.

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Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones by suifbwish on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @11:12PM (#26898320)

Not just that you can correlate this data with activity on various social networks like Reddit and 4chan or even hacker news over time and slowly narrow down the list of possible anonymous usernames someone may have by just removing all users that were active when individual is known to be sleeping.

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Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones by kuu on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @11:11AM (#26890677)

Can you share that research? Seems interesting

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