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Whatsapp allows desktop clients. I use it too. It is technically possible for someone to hijack this desktop client and do this without MBS's involvement, as lo
by kshacker 7y ago
Whatsapp allows desktop clients. I use it too. It is technically possible for someone to hijack this desktop client and do this without MBS's involvement, as long as MBS authorized that desktop. I think you need proximity, but you can have a computer near the prince, and that computer being remotely controlled by someone sitting far away.
Not saying this happened ... but there are many ways to blame it on prince and many ways to defend him (and blame a subordinate).
- jessriedel 7y agoI thought the Whatsapp desktop client was just a glorified remote control for the phone, and could not actually function as a standalone client by itself?
- rapsey 7y agoGoing through a remote control or to your phone directly makes no difference. So the remote control is an additional point of failure.
- kshacker 7y agoIt is a remote control, but a case could be made that even though the prince had the phone with him, someone did it from his computer [ Of course assuming he was not looking at his phone at that time. ] I am not on prince's side, just saying ...
- Totoradio 7y agoIf you're thinking of a private actor, I think that once you have access to MBS phone, you run to Doha before attacking Bezos. Qatar would pay a ton of money for that access. If you're thinking of a state actor except Saudi Arabia, I think there would be much easier and more discreet vectors to Jeff Bezos Whatsapp than MBS phone (literally almost any of Bezos other contacts would be less risky).