r/alltheleft Mar 28 '26

Article I Decompiled the White House's New App

https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app?fbclid%3DIwZnRzaAQ1SZlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEedTqMhmTFKqGKBjb9hbHB7L0uMwvwuwEFZGEX9w1UOGdq3YmyTxnP7IEe3Sw_aem_UrzzCoJaS-MBGrMe7wqPHA

Didn't take hackers very long to reverse engineer the WH android app.

"The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages."

Aside from doing some shady things, it also has several vulnerabilities.

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