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[commotionfever]

Looks like that app may have a backdoor https://x.com/d0tslash/status/1878959715033694492

[alp1n3_eth → commotionfever]

The backdoor named "backdoor", the l33t h4ck3rs strike again.

[marcosdumay → alp1n3_eth]

If it's for spying on Chinese people inside Chinese territory, there wouldn't be any need to hide it.

[glurblur → marcosdumay]

Nah, I don't buy it. Chinese as plenty of programmers who can read code as well as you. This dude is literally dumping symbols. There's no proof that it's actually a backdoor.

[marcosdumay → glurblur]

And those Chinese programmers can't talk to anybody about what they find.

[alp1n3_eth → marcosdumay]

It has been under heavy scrutiny by the security community for years, it would have already been found had it existed.

[saagarjha → commotionfever]

Running strings for “backdoor” isn’t quite top-notch technical analysis.

[pjc50 → commotionfever]

Quite plausible. To what extent can a backdoor escape Android/iOS sandboxing?

[jeromegv → pjc50]

> To what extent can a backdoor escape Android/iOS sandboxing?

Chances of that happening are close to 0.