WhatsApp may expose the OS you use to run it – which could expose you to crooks
WhatsApp may expose the OS you use to run it – which could expose you to crooks
www.theregister.com More WhatsApp privacy concerns over OS, device info leaks
Meta knows messaging service creates persistent user IDs that have different qualities on each device
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That’s also important information for targeting vulnerabilities. If there’s no reason to share that info, it should not be sharing it.
99% of browsers and their forks also expose your real OS via javascript (
navigator.platform), even on Tor Browser. Some in the privacy community say this information is actually worthless (it could be lying), but I don't know for sure.
I could flip a coin and determine what OS most people are running on their phone with 50% accuracy. Or, in the US, I could just guess iOS and be right 60% of the time.