The world seems to be shocked by the news that WhatsApp turned any phone into spyware. Everything on your phone – including photos, emails and texts – could be accessed by attackers just because you had WhatsApp installed [1].
This news didn’t surprise me, though. Last year WhatsApp had to admit they had a very similar issue – a single video call via WhatsApp was all a hacker needed to get access to all of your phone’s data [2].
Every time WhatsApp has to fix a critical vulnerability in their app, a new…
This is an article written by telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov in 2019 on “Why whatsapp will never be secure”. Your thoughts?
As it stands, Facebook can make unlimited, unauthenticated API calls to Lemmy and Mastodon right now… Blocking them only prevents their users from accessing the data.
Anybody who spins up a server basically gets instant access to that data from other instances, too. You don’t have to ask for permission. They just share it with you.
As it stands, Facebook can make unlimited, unauthenticated API calls to Lemmy and Mastodon right now… Blocking them only prevents their users from accessing the data.
Anybody who spins up a server basically gets instant access to that data from other instances, too. You don’t have to ask for permission. They just share it with you.
“Dumb fucks”
This is not about getting the data. This data is public.
It’s about market power