Three billion WhatsApp users are at risk - an expert has developed a tool that could spy on everyone, and you would never know about it

  • cron@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    I guess that it could also be used to compare different people. Do they have fast and slow connections at about the same time? Then they might be spending time together.

    This is clearly not for mass espionage, but at least a theoretical approach to confirm a suspicion.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      1 month ago

      It could be for mass espionage just by retaining metadata in a database and running continual analysis of it.

      Then you’d start to see oatters and associations, so you know where to dig deeper.