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SECURITY.md

Security Policy & Educational Disclaimer

This document outlines the security policies, educational disclaimers, and reporting procedures for the Facebook-SSL-Pinning-Bypass repository.

🎓 Educational & Security Research Purpose Only

The content, scripts, and documentation in this repository are provided strictly for educational purposes, security analysis, personal learning, and academic research.

  • Focus on Mobile Security: This project aims to demonstrate how SSL pinning works on mobile devices and how security researchers can analyze transport-layer communications in a local, controlled environment.
  • No Malicious Intent: This repository does not encourage, facilitate, or promote unauthorized access, data theft, or any actions that disrupt the integrity of Facebook's services.
  • Authorized Testing Only: Users of this information are responsible for ensuring that they only intercept traffic on devices and accounts they own, or where they have explicit, written consent from the relevant parties.
  • Compliance with Terms of Service: Users should be aware that modifying application packages or intercepting application traffic may violate the application provider's (Meta/Facebook) Terms of Service. It is the user's responsibility to understand and comply with these policies.

🔒 Best Practices for Secure Local Interception

When analyzing application traffic in a local sandbox or emulator, you should follow standard safety guidelines to avoid compromising your testing environment:

  1. Use Isolated Environments: Always perform traffic interception in a dedicated Android emulator or a separate test device. Do not use your personal, daily-driver device.
  2. Use Test Accounts: Never use active personal accounts. Create and use dedicated test accounts to prevent potential session hijacking or account flags.
  3. Manage Trusted Credentials: After completing your traffic analysis, immediately remove any custom Root CA certificates installed on the device's trust store to prevent potential interception by unauthorized networks in the future.

📧 Reporting a Security Concern or Vulnerability

If you identify a security issue, have concerns regarding the contents of this repository, or wish to report a vulnerability, please contact the maintainer directly.

Please send your reports or inquiries to:

We request that you contact us privately using the details above rather than opening public GitHub issues or discussions.

There aren't any published security advisories