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The article is garbling the WhatsApp allegations: WhatsApp says the hackers abused WhatsApp servers to hack phones, not that the servers had a flaw. To send the
by roywiggins 7y ago
The article is garbling the WhatsApp allegations: WhatsApp says the hackers abused WhatsApp servers to hack phones, not that the servers had a flaw. To send the malicious payloads to the victims, the hackers sent messages that flowed over WhatsApp's networks, which largely what they're hanging the lawsuit on.
https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/bf5edf35-5672-49fa-aca1-edefadff683f/note/8ef25c0d-fee9-416a-b7f9-e0a4dedc66f2.pdf https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do...
The actual flaw was this one: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3568 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3568