PSA: Using WhatsApp on a rooted Android device or running a custom ROM? No crypto for you. faq.whatsapp.com/en/android/260
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You're misinterpreting this. They're saying that their end-to-end encryption won't be able to protect people on alternative OSes, because they roll back many security features, break core parts of the security model and rarely ship full security updates even when available.
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If I wouldn't use homebrew ROM, I would not have any security updates from the last 3 years.
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You may be under that impression, but you're still missing half of the security updates. Using the latest Android Open Source Project security update only provides half of the security updates. The updates for firmware, drivers, etc. are crucial too and you won't be getting them.
I don't think applying best effort partial security updates where literally half of the updates including many of the most important ones are missing is going to accomplish much. Most custom ROMs pretend they're on the latest patch level regardless of not having half the updates.
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Read the next tweet in my thread:
twitter.com/DanielMicay/st
You're replying to the first tweet out of context. I'm not saying the stock OS on most devices is secure. That's the opposite of what I've said. However using an alternative OS is not a viable way of working around that.
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It's hard to disagree with that overall but they're presenting it poorly in an attempt to dumb it down. Still, it's quite disingenuous for them to say this while not saying anything about all the devices with unmaintained vendor forks of Android and lack of security updates.
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