Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on October 23, 2018. Zoom recently started using WebRTC’s DataChannels so we have added some new details at the end in the DataChannels section. Zoom has a web client that allows a participant to join meetings without downloading their app. Chris Koehncke was excited to see how this […]
Blackbox Exploration
The WhatsApp RTCP exploit – what might have happened?
As you may have heard, Whatsapp discovered a security issue in their client which was actively exploited in the wild. The exploit did not require the target to pick up the call which is really scary. Since there are not many facts to go on, lets do some tea reading… The security advisory issued by […]
Messenger was not forced to wiretap but…
By david drexler – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Link Back in August, Reuters reported on a “secret legal fight” between the FBI and Facebook about wiretapping Messenger calls. The Verge as they found our old post about reverse-engineering Messenger from 2015 and had a number of follow-up questions on it for a Messenger wiretapping article they ran. Technical […]
YouTube Does WebRTC – Here’s How
I logged into YouTube on Tuesday and noticed this new camera icon in the upper right corner, with a “Go Live (New)” option, so I clicked on it to try. It turns out you can now live stream directly from the browser. This smelled a lot like WebRTC, so I loaded up chrome://webrtc-internals to see […]
All I want for Christmas is Hangouts to use WebRTC on Firefox
As the year 2017 comes to an end, there was a small present. Hangouts started to support Firefox with WebRTC instead of rejecting access – plugin access had been unavailable since Firefox 53 removed NPAPI in April 2017. While it had been public for a while that the Firefox WebRTC team had been testing this, […]