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WhatsApp may expose the OS you use to run it – which could expose you to crooks (www.theregister.com)
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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s also important information for targeting vulnerabilities. If there’s no reason to share that info, it should not be sharing it.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

99% of browsers and their forks also expose your real OS via javascript (navigator.platform), even on Tor Browser. Some in the privacy community say this information is actually worthless (it could be lying), but I don't know for sure.