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I decompiled the White House's new app

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  1. balooga
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    Not surprised a garbage presidency is shipping a garbage app. My guess is they vibe-coded the whole thing in a couple hours. The location tracking is by far the most egregious thing but (and this...

    Not surprised a garbage presidency is shipping a garbage app. My guess is they vibe-coded the whole thing in a couple hours. The location tracking is by far the most egregious thing but (and this is just a sign of the times) probably not much worse than what most mobile apps are doing these days. I would hope that OS-level privacy protections would at least prevent it from leaking users' locations without their knowledge.

    But you know what we really need? Deep-dive decompilation reports just like this, for ALL THE APPS. We need a whole searchable site full of them, with top/bottom 40 lists praising the best apps and shaming the worst.

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