I actually discovered this when accidentally opening @crowdtangle on a WhatsApp web tab, resulting in a list of groups that had been widely shared online.
Point is, any group link that is shared it outside of secure, private messaging can relatively easily be found and joined.
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On top of that, even if you haven't shared the link, it's possible, but difficult, to run a kind of brute-force method to get access to a URL that corresponds to an active group chat.
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It seems Facebook acknowledged this after
@hackrzvijay alerted them, suggesting that admins can invalidate the link. In the app, I could only generate a new link (which invalidates the old one), but couldn’t disable it altogether.https://twitter.com/hackrzvijay/status/1230853118490857478 …
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And it’s not just illegal porn, but in our searches earlier we discovered listings for far-right and anti-government groups. There’s a lot more to this under the surface.https://twitter.com/johan_lieber/status/1230877328449761280 …
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Also, I’ll save the devious of you out there some time by saying that the link in that screenshot won’t get you into my test chat, I’ve already reset it
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I type that but how can I refine my search to a certain theme?
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Google changed how this works, so it might not be the same now. Searching “site:http://web.whatsapp.com [keyword] used to work, but I can’t replicate that now
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Isn’t it how an open link should be? It’s a link and would be taken by google search engine the same way as any other link but google won’t have access to ph no. or group content.
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Yes, though this isn't exactly the thing that people are frustrated about. Around 450k groups were found and it's not clear that this would be possible. Phone numbers are easily accessible after joining the groups, and it's not too difficult to mine these open groups for data.
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How is this shit not taken down yet!