Are there any infos about what an attacker can do with this? The article didn’t say this. Remote Code execution? With the privileges of the app? Reading all files? Or only some? The impact information seems important here.
turn off auto download media folks
If you use WhatsApp you are a moron.
Not everyone uses this shit willingly. I’m forced to because of my job, for instance.
Hopefully it’s on a work device.
not many people use it because they like it
Oh yes, let me cut myself completely from society and 90% of people I’ve ever met. That will tell Zuckerberg!
Stay away from cliffs.
I say this to myself every time that I open Whatsapp to check my family chats
Just switch! Or run your own chat!
I use whatsapp for communicating with a few groups of people who are refusing to switch over. I’m not getting them to move, they’re a mix of tech illiterate, ignorant, or just unwilling. These groups have important annoucements in them, that I’m unable to receive any other way. Sometimes there’s just no way around services like these.
I do my best to protect myself (no proprietary facebook code ever runs on my main device), and keep personal information I provide to a minimum (as I don’t trust Facebook’s E2EE claims). There’s not much more I can do besides not receiving important announcements.
dont explain your self to people who have no ties to others
