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		Godel_unicode on Aug 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook scans system libraries on Android and upl... There are a lot of techniques to compare binary similarity that don't require human intervention. Edit: see for instance https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical...

Wowfunhappy on Aug 30, 2019 [–]

But you could do that on the device too, you don't need to upload the library.

I don't know, you could be right—maybe Facebook really wants their analysis to only run on their own servers. It just seems like a stretch to me.

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