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Tencent Explains WeChat’s Unexpected Exposure to Foreign Search Engines: Loophole of Web Crawling Account Protocols
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Tencent Explains WeChat’s Unexpected Exposure to Foreign Search Engines: Loophole of Web Crawling Account Protocols

Oct 25, 2021
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Tencent has fixed a bug it found on its popular messaging app WeChat on Friday that exposed some social media content to external search engines, such as Bing and Google.

“Due to the recent technology upgrades of the platform, a loophole was found in the Official Accounts’ robots protocol, which allowed external web crawling to access p…

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