Guess what happened when Axios' China correspondant / reporter changed their password...
https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/...11996007559168
Guess what happened when Axios' China correspondant / reporter changed their password...
https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/...11996007559168
Last edited by shri; 05-06-2020 at 08:37 AM.
Doesn't that imply WeChat stores the passwords in plain text? I'm sure that's safe.
Like any good government-influenced software/hardware/IT company, there'll be backdoors where necessary to facilitate spying or information gathering. Not limited to China here, either. Plenty of American companies to choose from too.
An amusing story!
Did that all the time at places where an email address is asked for wifi access. Wonder how many similar addresses are collected in a day from McDonald's
Do they really care much what is typed in english ?
Haha, that's not how that works. You need a friend in China (or other long-time WeChat user) that will vouch for you. It's very hard or impossible to create an account as a foreigner without Chinese friends. My wild guess is that the password was intercepted in the plaintext by the Firewall (yes, it's sent with SSL, but I'm pretty sure China has appropriate privkeys), correlated with the WeChat user, and blocked automatically with some very internal Firewall - WeChat integration.