With Meta’s Messenger application for macOS being so close to the Texts.com model—that being a standalone desktop application—Batuhan İçöz who is leading the Meta platform project at Texts.com thought we could gain some valuable insight by analyzing it. Everyone knows that intercepting network requests is a great and low barrier-of-entry first-step. Meta implements certificate pinning into their applications which enhances their security model, and prevents us from being able to execute a MITM (...