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by j4hdufd8 1627 days ago
What do you mean? Where is it needed?
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Tepix 1626 days ago
There are unfortunately situations where the only way to reach someone is via WhatsApp. I have avoided them but i can see WhatsApp in a VM being useful for those purposes.
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flatiron 1627 days ago
i believe they are referring to the whatsapp bug that the saudi prince used on jeff bezos. simply sending bezos a message gave the saudi prince root access on his phone and he dumped all his messages and photos and released them to the press. running in a vm would just have whatsapp so they can send and receive messages without exposing all the private information on their phone in case of some 0day
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qwertox 1627 days ago
So you would run the VM on a phone? Because if not, you'd need to carry an open and connected laptop around.
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Tepix 1626 days ago
You could connect to the VM using somelike like TeamViewer running on your phone.
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qwertox 1624 days ago
You would run TeamViewer on your phone 24/7 with a persistent connection to a server? Now would you receive the notifications?
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