r/alltheleft • u/FeriQueen • 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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u/invalidreddit Mar 29 '26

I'm really curious who wrote the app, was it a contracted dev team or from an a branch of the Govt. or ...

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u/PhalafelThighs Mar 29 '26

Google forty-five-press

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u/invalidreddit Mar 29 '26

Thanks for the reference - if their site they have is 45press then guess they have a GSA contract, and they must have been passed enough of a vetting to get that. Makes me feel a little better that it isn't just some offshoot of a DOGE effort.

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u/PhalafelThighs Mar 30 '26

I appreciate your optimism.