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Comment by xnx

25 days ago

> requires message media to be decoded before the message is opened by the user

I like seeing thumbnail previews of images in messages

I don’t know about android, but iOS has some pretty interesting architecture to prevent and sandbox that kind of attack

They put a lot of deliberate work to enable this feature in a way that is hard to exploit

And it really sounds like Google is not mentioning that stance