More WhatsApp privacy concerns over OS, device info leaks
www.theregister.com
Meta knows messaging service creates persistent user IDs that have different qualities on each device
  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    11·
    19 days ago

    That’s also important information for targeting vulnerabilities. If there’s no reason to share that info, it should not be sharing it.

    • refalo@programming.dev
      4·
      18 days ago

      99% of browsers and their forks also expose your real OS via javascript (navigator.platform), even on Tor Browser. Some in the privacy community say this information is actually worthless (it could be lying), but I don’t know for sure.

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
    2·
    18 days ago

    I could flip a coin and determine what OS most people are running on their phone with 50% accuracy. Or, in the US, I could just guess iOS and be right 60% of the time.