Carmi Levy

Do you really need to have a live stream what's going on in the White House?

Or do you need real-time updates, as they say, straight from the source?

Or in exchange for them having your precise location every few minutes, them knowing your biometric data, them being able to modify settings on your device governing what does and does not get stored.

I mean, this is a really aggressive set of permissions from an administration that, quite frankly, I wouldn't trust to shovel my walk.

So, you know, download this with great care and great peril because I certainly won't.

Is it possible they just use some random contractor and some random like library with some random like they just built the app as quickly as possible and whatever library they're using logged the location and it's not actually meant to be malicious?

I mean, I would say it wouldn't surprise me if they used the same team responsible for the Trump phone, which we're still waiting for.

I guess they're waiting for the right shade of gold spray paint to spray paint it.

But, you know, I think that's how this government treats technology.

It's always half-baked.

But at the same time, given this government's history...

and kind of the way the administration seems to be messaging itself, I wouldn't put it past it to have a malicious intent for this app.

So no, I don't think they developed this in a professional manner, but I also think their intent was somewhat less than honorable.

And there's a blog post by some nerd saying, I decompiled the White House's new app and here's what I found.

And it's a bit technical, but it's like, it's almost comical.

Like it's just a badly written piece of software.

So it wouldn't surprise me.

I mean, if the US government wanted to track your location, they wouldn't need to do it through a White House app.

Come on, they got the NSA and stuff.

So I think it was just badly built and it's comical, the security flaws in it.