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Google can now read your WhatsApp messages

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467 points bundie | 2 comments | 08 Jul 25 16:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.483s | source
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bsaul ◴[08 Jul 25 16:57 UTC] No.44501820[source]▶
how does this work ? Aren't the whatsapp data encrypted locally ?
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pkilgore ◴[08 Jul 25 17:21 UTC] 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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1. bsaul ◴[08 Jul 25 17:54 UTC] 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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2. jadamson ◴[08 Jul 25 18:15 UTC] No.44502562[source]▶
The more likely candidate is reading notifications, no?