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"textContent": "A security researcher who decompiled the White House's new mobile app says it contains hidden GPS-tracking capabilities, weak security protections, and code loaded from an outside GitHub page, raising serious questions about privacy and cybersecurity.\n\n> And it gets even stranger. Apparently, the app is loading JavaScript from a random person's GitHub site for YouTube embeds.\n\n— Read the rest \n\nThe post Security researcher tears apart White House app and finds a tracking and security nightmare appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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