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Can’t it just scan the client? For email at least, I feel it can just read your inbox or whatever and store the results of the analysis locally. You were very
by omarhaneef 4y ago
Can’t it just scan the client? For email at least, I feel it can just read your inbox or whatever and store the results of the analysis locally.
You were very active with this friend for n years and it dropped off. Drop them a line.
- derefr 4y agoThat presumes the client stores anything locally + in plaintext. Clients like Facebook Messenger, Slack, and Discord have no local storage other than (opaque, fragmentary, useless) cache databases, because they're just "webapps in a can"; while many of the more modern native chat clients like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc keep all their synced state encrypted-at-rest on disk. Also, that presumes you're on desktop. On mobile, you just can't poke into another app's sandbox/container that way (unless the target app hasn't explicitly granted made some part of its container-filesystem externally accessible; and there's no reason these apps would.) And many people only have a mobile device. If you're okay with a partial solution, a far easier one would be scraping the data out of the few clients that have web-app versions through browser extensions that read the state out of the page they're running in.
- omarhaneef 4y agoYes, good point and I like your final partial solution. I think it’s a good compromise.