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Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

Why in the world would the White House's mobile app need permissions or any kind of interaction with (or even reference to) the Chinese tech giant Huawei, whose products are banned from the United States for concerns about national security, espionage and intellectual property theft? Here's a scan at Virustotal.com of what's bundled in the latest White House app:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a98f49eb467bdbe4c32c55cc155a85eadc2b7806fad72cd6e06de25d51a0eac7/details

A list of intent filters in the White House app,  Intent Filters By Action com.google.firebase.MESSAGING_EVENT androidx.media3.session.MediaSessionService com.huawei.push.action.MESSAGING_EVENT com.onesignal.notifications.services.HmsMessageServiceOneSignal android.intent.action.MAIN android.intent.action.VIEW android.intent.action.BATTERY_OKAY android.intent.action.BATTERY_LOW android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED android.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE android.intent.action.DEVICE_STORAGE_LOW android.intent.action.DEVICE_STORAGE_OK expo.modules.notifications.NOTIFICATION_EVENT android.intent.action.REBOOT com.htc.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON android.intent.action.MY_PACKAGE_REPLACED androidx.work.diagnostics.REQUEST_DIAGNOSTICS android.net.conn.CONNECTIVITY_CHANGE androidx.work.impl.background.systemalarm.UpdateProxies android.intent.action.ACTION_POWER_CONNECTED android.intent.action.ACTION_POWER_DISCONNECTED android.intent.action.TIME_SET android.intent.action.TIMEZONE_CHANGED androidx.profileinstaller.action.INSTALL_PROFILE androidx.profileinstaller.action.SKIP_FILE androidx.profileinstaller.action.SAVE_PROFILE androidx.profileinstaller.action.BENCHMARK_OPERATION