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WhatsApp, Signal, untraceable security risk (www.techradar.com)
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Three billion WhatsApp users are at risk - an expert has developed a tool that could spy on everyone, and you would never know about it

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[–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My phone has the exact symptoms described in this article.. I don't like this..

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    You can mitigate (but not entirely stop the technique) by WhatsApp Settings, select Privacy, go to Advanced, and enable “Block unknown account messages.” and also disabling read receipts.

    You could also uninstall the app and see if your battery usage reduces, or check in your phone's battery usage statistics for WhatsApp using a lot of it.

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