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Google can now read your WhatsApp messages

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467 points bundie | 1 comments | 08 Jul 25 16:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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Matthias247 ◴[08 Jul 25 18:43 UTC] No.44502802[source]▶
How does it work technically?

Does Whatsapp expose these messages via an API? If yes, then it seems like this is not only on Google.

If no: Are they reading data from raw UI widgets? Are they intercepting input controls? Are they intercepting network traffic? That seems unlikely, given its probably end to end encrypted and the decryption happens within the scope of the Whatsapp process.

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1. netsharc ◴[08 Jul 25 20:04 UTC] No.44503552[source]▶
> If no: Are they reading data from raw UI widgets? Are they intercepting input controls?

Why not... they control the OS, it'd be trivial to add hooks to the "draw widget" command to intercept that it's about to draw a text widget for WhatsApp, and then ask it to log the text.