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Jack Dorsey says his ‘secure’ new Bitchat app has not been tested for security


Dorsey admitted that his new messaging app had not been reviewed or tested for security issues prior to its launch.

(Image: Alex Rodocea)On Monday, Radocea filed a ticket on the GitHub project to ask how to report the security flaw he discovered in the Bitchat Favorites system. Someone also pointed out a potential buffer overflow bug, which is a common type of security vulnerability where a hacker can force a device’s memory to spill out to other locations, opening the door for a data compromise. But a basic sanity check, like, do the identity keys actually do any cryptography, would be a very obvious thing to test when building something like this,” Radocea told TechCrunch.

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