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

  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    IT hobbyist here. This guy knows his stuff. Dangerous attacks are the ones that are very low effort with medium to high reward. This attack is high effort and low reward. This is one of these trivia things, that you will virtually never see in the wild.

    • Tinidril@midwest.social
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      5 months ago

      High effort is not a great thing to count on. Once these things are discovered there are all sorts of clever (or not so clever) ways to automate the effort away. Especially now with AI.