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by hashhar 208 days ago
It's trivial to enumerate all the phone numbers in the world.
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exactly. to claim enumerating phone numbers is a whatsapp bug is stupid. and to say profile pictures were not revealed = not reading tfa.
"The accessible data items used in the study are the same that are public for anyone who knows a user's phone number and consist of: phone number, public keys, timestamps, and, if set to public, about text and profile picture." Source: TFA, which I read.
From my understanding the accessible data items meant they got them through the bug? Maybe I read wrong