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journalist covering hackers/crime/platforms for @motherboard. Signal ☎️+44 20 8133 5190. Wickr 📳 josephcox. XMPP 🔑 jfcox@jabber.ccc.de 📨joseph.cox@vice.com

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    Joseph Cox‏ @josephfcox 17 Dec 2019
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    Security firm CheckPoint discovered a WhatsApp issue that meant an attacker could send a specific group message and crash the app. Okay, fair enough. But the framing was... just a little bit over the top. We didn't cover. Accurately informing users clearly not the motivation.pic.twitter.com/MtZ6MkrpgC

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      1. Joseph Cox‏ @josephfcox 18 Dec 2019
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        (Multiple people from CheckPoint who aren't part of the PR department have reached out me to distance themselves from this framing; this email was from PR, not researchers)

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      2. Swati Khandelwal‏ @Swati_THN 17 Dec 2019
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        Seems the PR guys customised the title for you 🤣 because I received exact same information with relevant no-nonsense title. Btw, it shouldn't matter how companies portrait information, if a story deserves to be published, our job is to cover it in a way we understand it.pic.twitter.com/2SlZ7voeoy

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      3. Joseph Cox‏ @josephfcox 18 Dec 2019
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        It wasn't the PR framing that made me decide to not cover. The issue was patched back in September.

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      2. MalwareTech‏Verified account @MalwareTechBlog 17 Dec 2019
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        Broke: "we found an unexploitable memory corruption bug" Woke: "we stopped cyber terrorism"

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      3. egyp7.‏ @egyp7 17 Dec 2019
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        No one hacks like Gaston, gets bugs patched like Gaston, cybers the terror so you can relax like Gaston!

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      2. Yonathan Klijnsma‏Verified account @ydklijnsma 17 Dec 2019
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        I’m just gonna assume this was an incredibly poor take by the marketing department and the researchers themselves simply went “oh lol you can crash WhatsApp with this malformed message. I’ll send them a report real quick.” If not, holy hell what a shit attempt at being relevant.

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      3. MalwareTech‏Verified account @MalwareTechBlog 17 Dec 2019
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        Yeah, my experience with checkpoint is their researchers do good work, then their marketing team makes everyone look like a fucking joke.

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      2. Chad Loder‏ @chadloder 17 Dec 2019
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        That red serif headline tho

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      3. Scott Francis ن‏ @darkuncle 17 Dec 2019
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        tbh a little disappointed they didn't go for the blood dripping off the bottom of the headline. missed opportunity there.

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      2. Avimanyu Roy‏ @AvimanyuRoy3 17 Dec 2019
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        HAV0C!

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        Imagine the unmitigated chaos of billions of people who by definition must have phones and each other's numbers suddenly having to send an SMS message.

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