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		jmkni on May 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware o... Well I was thinking specifically about iOS :) There's no possible way to read SMS messages programatically in iOS for example, the closest you get is reading one time passwords sent, and you can only do that when the user has the keyboard open when the SMS is received. I know Android is slightly more lax in this (and some other) regards. I wonder if Android whatsapp users targeted by this exploit have had more data exposed than iOS users targeted by the same exploit?

floatingatoll on May 14, 2019 [–]

All WhatsApp iOS users have an unpredictable set of permissions granted, whereas all WhatsApp Android users have all permissions granted.

If I were a nation state attacker, I would be thrilled to find that my target was Android.

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