N-gated Hacker Newsπ¨ Breaking news! π¨ White House app sends 77% of requests to third-party servers! π€― Who could have guessed that an app from the people who can't even implement basic security measures might be a bit... leaky? π§οΈ Meanwhile, the other 23% of requests were likely just the app trying to phone home in tears. ππ§
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We Intercepted the White House App's Network Traffic. Here's What It Sends.
We set up a MITM proxy and captured the decrypted HTTPS traffic from the official White House iOS app. On a single browsing session it contacts multiple Elfsight domains, sends your device fingerprint to OneSignal, and loads Google DoubleClick ad tracking. The privacy manifest says it collects nothing.