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> Meta has access to the backups that are stored on each individual’s Google Drive/iCloud? Why the surprise? Meta has access to the folder it manages in the user's Google Drive. That's obvious, otherwise they wouldn't be able to write to it.
The app uses the (i)phone OS’s cloud storage APIs to write to the backup folder, meta’s servers don’t have access to any credentials. For Android I currently can’t check, but it’s obvious from their FAQs that they have the app upload to Google‘s servers even if they don’t use the OS APIs there: https://faq.whatsapp.com/481135090640375/?cms_platform=andro... They have indirect control over the user’s backup folder via…
Haha. That's a great proof! Not the closed source, not the proprietary protocol they use to talk with their server, but their FAQ.
> They have indirect control over the user’s backup folder via the app, but meta would need to distribute a malicious update to everyone
Please give us the results of your research when you reverse-engineered Meta's apk to prove your point as this is what you think others should do. Otherwise it is just big talk.
"oh but if that was the case you would get rich reporting it!". More low IQ reasoning. You will get sued to death, I know people that did so and now have to waste time and money with the legal system.