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by powvans 1755 days ago
Mobile developers can implement certificate pinning to prevent man in the middle snooping. Twitter's app does this.
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That achieves nothing against someone who uses something like apktool/baksmali to do static RE, let alone inject something like Frida to perform dynamic RE. There are even Xposed modules designed to just bypass certificate pinning.

Certificate pinning is a good security measure, but not a counter-RE one.

Certificate pinning is neither a good security measure nor a good obfuscation one.
I hope you did not just assume that general purpose computing and device ownership can be subverted by mere certificate pinning.

If it's executing on my device, you can be sure I can poke it and see what it's doing.