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shawnz on Sept 28, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages Wit...

No, you would also have to audit the entire codebase.

You could also decompile the Whatsapp APK and do the same thing (it's Java after all).

colejohnson66 on Sept 28, 2019 | [–]

> No, you would also have to audit the entire codebase

Look no further than the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability

ajconway on Sept 28, 2019 | [–]

WhatsApp contains significant amount of native code, making it much more difficult to analyze.

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