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A Security Researcher Decompiled The White House App, & What They Found Is Pretty Alarming (www.androidheadlines.com)

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A security researcher decompiled the White House’s new official app and found some alarming stuff buried in the code, including a hidden GPS tracking pipeline, JavaScript loaded from a random GitHub account, no SSL certificate pinning, and an in-app browser that silently strips cookie consent dialogs and paywalls from every page you visit.

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[-] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 25 points 2 weeks ago

None of that is surprising.

[-] Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

Damn click bait economy making tech journalists have to jebait us for revenue

[-] auntieclokwise@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

And it gets even stranger. Apparently, the app is loading JavaScript from a random person’s GitHub site for YouTube embeds. Yes, you read that right, it’s just loading JavaScript from a random GitHub site. So if that account ever gets compromised, arbitrary code could run inside the app’s WebView.

Somebody has the opportunity to do the most hilarious thing.

[-] twoBrokenThumbs@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

At least they acknowledge that cookie consent does nothing and paywalls are ridiculous.

[-] Lor@mander.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago

My shocked face 😶

[-] northernlights@lemmy.today 10 points 2 weeks ago

I wouldn't have expected any less.

this post was submitted on 06 May 2026

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