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WhatsApp may expose the OS you use to run it – which could expose you to crooks (www.theregister.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/privacy
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That’s also important information for targeting vulnerabilities. If there’s no reason to share that info, it should not be sharing it.

[–] refalo 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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.