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Whatsapp is rolling out passkeys. I don’t think backing up passkeys in a password manager is a good idea. I’d like to have device bound passkeys but they only allow me to create one. How should I be able to have it in different devices for… Continue reading Why whatsapp only let you create 1 passkey?
I’ve seen people in security saying URLs with Cyrillic characters are dangerous. If you ever type such characters on a browser you’d see they break into crazy unrecognizable URLs that have nothing to do with the original name.
Another atta… Continue reading Are Cyrillic characters a real threat?
WhatsApp (and many other services) has the option to receive the login code through a phone call.
Steps:
attempt to log into WhatsApp on another phone with your number
click on the button saying you didn’t get the number on your WhatsApp … Continue reading WhatsApp sends a authentication code via a call. Android doesn’t block calls with a locked screen
My friend Alice says she was possibly hacked. Yesterday, her friend Bob said Alice sent him a WhatsApp message with some numbers, and then Bob replied to this message with a thumbs up. Bob says no record of the message appears on their cha… Continue reading Unusual WhatsApp message with random code sent to a contact [closed]
Trusting kernel drivers is bad. Is there something we can do to have at least an idea about what it does?
For example, let’s suppose an armv8a linux kernel. I’d search for all the syscalls, which according to https://stackoverflow.com/a/12… Continue reading Is it possible to determinate which functions a kernel module calls?
I know that anything can be exploited. But let’s say I want to prevent thieves that do not have access to not openly available exploits, to reset my phone so he can sell.
If no openly available exploits exist, then he’d be left with the options of factory resetting (which I opened a question about here: Is Android’s system recovery a firmware thing or Android thing? Can factory reset be prevented?) or flashing a brand new Android.
Is there a way I can prevent him of flashing a new OS at all? This, combined with not being able to factory reset, would render the phone useless (unless he sells its parts).
Continue reading Can I prevent thieves from unlocking Android’s bootloader?
I’m researching on how to protect my phone from being able to be reseted by thieves. Doing some research online I figured out that the main method of putting a stolen phone to work again is to do a factory reset through rebooting and using… Continue reading Is Android’s system recovery a firmware thing or Android thing? Can factory reset be prevented?