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I Decompiled the White House's New App— The app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages. (blog.thereallo.dev)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] webkitten@piefed.social 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Which begs the question of if the Trump admin will give up the app and allow it to be archived, considering it's using the gov.whitehouse.app app id or if they'll keep it and pretend to be the White House (in which case will Apple and Google step in and pull it from App Stores).

[–] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Just updated the post. If Petty and Xsponse are involved, and they use CSC, I don't think they care about the appid issue because it's possible they control the entire internet infrastructure stack anyway. But that's only an if.