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> At least two of the flaws are in mp4 parsing done by WhatsApp itself, while both Android and iOS provide hardened platform tools for that. I imagine this cho
by culturestate 7y ago
> At least two of the flaws are in mp4 parsing done by WhatsApp itself, while both Android and iOS provide hardened platform tools for that.
I imagine this choice was made at least partly for consistency across platforms, because WhatsApp supports a lot of devices and OS versions. You can use the current apps on Android back to 2.3.7 (2011) and on iOS 8+ (2014).
Until 2018, WhatsApp also ran on BlackBerry 7+ (2011).