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bsaul ◴[] No.44501820[source]
how does this work ? Aren't the whatsapp data encrypted locally ?
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1. pkilgore ◴[] No.44502068[source]
You have to unencrypt data to process it and as soon as you do that, the right Kernel APIs are enough to see whatever you want -- here the accessibility APIs are probably enough to read any text you would be able to read.
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2. bsaul ◴[] No.44502390[source]
another person in the thread suggests it's working over a screen capture stream. But that's what i'm wondering : are they working over a video of the screen or by integrating directly with the internals of the OS.
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3. jadamson ◴[] No.44502562[source]
The more likely candidate is reading notifications, no?