I Decompiled the White House's New App
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The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.
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What Is This App?

It’s a React Native app built with Expo (SDK 54), running on the Hermes JavaScript engine. The backend is WordPress with a custom REST API. The app was built by an entity called “forty-five-press” according to the Expo config.

  • Katherine 🪴@piefed.socialEnglish
    81·
    1 day ago

    Which begs the question of if the Trump admin will give up the app and allow it to be archived, considering it’s using the gov.whitehouse.app app id or if they’ll keep it and pretend to be the White House (in which case will Apple and Google step in and pull it from App Stores).

    • fiat_lux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Just updated the post. If Petty and Xsponse are involved, and they use CSC, I don’t think they care about the appid issue because it’s possible they control the entire internet infrastructure stack anyway. But that’s only an if.