RetroFedA Security Researcher Decompiled The White House App, & What They Found Is Pretty Alarming
SocialistVibes01A security researcher decompiled the White House’s new official app and found some alarming stuff buried in the code, including a hidden GPS tracking pipeline, JavaScript loaded from a random GitHub account, no SSL certificate pinning, and an in-app browser that silently strips cookie consent dialogs and paywalls from every page you visit.
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The app also injects JavaScript and CSS into every page you visit in the in-app browser. This strips away cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login walls, and paywalls. There’s also leftover dev artifacts in the production build, including a localhost URL to the Metro bundler.
Weirdly, that’s probably what will take it down, avoiding paywalls
They want to be able to serve up pre-selcted articles that push their narrative, but they’re gonna piss off all the places they link to, because the app is also injecting its own ads at that point.
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None of that is surprising.
Damn click bait economy making tech journalists have to jebait us for revenue
Somebody has the opportunity to do the most hilarious thing.
At least they acknowledge that cookie consent does nothing and paywalls are ridiculous.
My shocked face 😶
I wouldn’t have expected any less.