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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message

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This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message

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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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Engineers warned Meta that nations can monitor chats; staff fear Israel is using this trick to pick assassination targets in Gaza.
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    lol not sure why you’re calling out Israel specifically when likely every government on the planet is doing the same thing.

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      Because they’ve been caught killing people in Gaza based on their affiliations to group chats on WhatsApp.

      https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240418-israel-using-metas-whatsapp-to-kill-palestinians-in-gaza-through-ai-system/

      https://www.arabnews.com/node/2495816/media

      https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/131708/Meta-challenged-over-accusations-of-helping-Israel-identify-war-targets

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      Israel has been the center for surveillance and intelligence tech for a long time, they are at the peak, way above the NSA. The NSA is just a bunch of code monkeys honestly, they get way too much credit

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      The article is, and I’m TL;DRing the article

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