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According to some folks on Twitter / Reddit it seems to be running FreeBSD 12. Someone ran an nmap to try and fingerprint it.

It sounds like the people are the problem, not the platform. If anything things could be much worse without the moderation that does take place, and security.

That's because it is, that's the entire point of it.

Typically this is disallowed from non company devices. If you're allowed to sync your corporate email to your personal devices, that's probably an oversight.

She quit a while back if I recall from some of her posts about it a few years ago. Additionally this isn't the first time she's had issues at a company and left (if you read further back). That being said, it is still useful knowledge, but probably could be taken with a grain of salt.

Yes, but segmentation by that would be prone to high error rates most likely, and result in error rates too high to gather meaningful data from A/B tests like this.

On mobile, I don't get a full screen modal. Just a small banner at the bottom that can be closed. This doesn't sound like something that would be A/B tested, since that requires some sort of audience to segment by (typically user id).

It works fine for me (in SF), strange. It also worked fine over in Canada in both dense urban centers, and rural areas which is one of the main reasons I had switched to it to begin with.

You won't be sued (I'm not a lawyer) as long as you're not breaking and ToC, or misleading users into using it and sending you their data.

That's the reason the actor in the article is being sued, not because they're scraping, but because it was sending it to a 3rd party without consent or knowledge.

Ahh interesting, thanks for the response. Surprisingly enough, Kaspersky also attributed it to a Russian APT, so I'm still not sure about the parent post's claim that it makes the US look stupid, if it's the global intelligence community saying so.

Ah, thanks for the source / context.

This would make sense, as Eltech's engine was used extensively across multiple ports done by Nvidia for their Shield platform (RE5, MGRR)

Are the US intelligence community / media saying that the attack was by the Russians?

It should be noted that GovChat itself does not appear to be a government entity, and if they are breaking terms of service, it would be well within WhatsApp's right to "offboard" them