Subj : whatsapp = bad for your smartphone health
To   : MRO
From : Ogg
Date : Sat Oct 08 2022 08:52 am

Hello MRO!

** On Thursday 06.10.22 - 23:00, MRO wrote to Ogg:

 M> i didnt follow the link but i looked it upon my own. they
 M> dont think anybody knew about this issue and it was
 M> patched. who knows if that's correct.  it's from sending a
 M> video file that allows remote code execution.

There were other links in the message, but yes.. the main thing  
was the video-call issue. In the cnbc article:

 "This is a big deal," Travis Ormandy, a researcher at Google  
Project Zero which discovered the bug, said on Twitter. "Just  
++answering a call from an attacker could completely compromise  
WhatsApp."


 M> what do you mean whatsapp stores user passwords in the clear?
 M> they are encrypted.

One of the other articles mentioned that up until 2016 the app  
didn't encrypt the pw or manage the keys properly.


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