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Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Paragon, an Israeli spyware company, has been finding and using a lot of WhatsApp exploits to deliver malware. Nobody would be surprised if Israel forces Paragon to give them the best exploits.

So I don't think they even need to provide evidence for this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Also meta has been caught adding extra tracking code. At one point, if you had any of their apps , they could track many sites even in private browser tabs. I read the exploit description on lemmy a few days ago.

And the owner of meta is closely associated with the American government.