Re: Bug lets anyone bypass WhatsApp's 'View Once' privacy feature

On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:36:21 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:  

Once again Mark Fuckerberg screws over those using his crappy services.   
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/09/bug-lets-anyone-bypass-whatsapps-view- 
once-privacy-feature/   

  
(using Tor Browser 13.5.3)     
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/09/bug-lets-anyone-bypass-whatsapps-view-once-privacy-feature/ 

WhatsApp, the most popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app    
in the world with more than two billion users, allows users to    
exchange pictures and videos that disappear soon after opening. 
...   
"The only thing that is worse than no privacy, is a false sense    
of privacy in which users are led to believe some forms of
communication are private when in fact they are not"  

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it's a magic trick . . .