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A federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut down (www.techspot.com)
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A 10-month Commerce Department probe concluded Meta could view all WhatsApp messages in unencrypted form

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[–] 22 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Nitpicking; even if they have the keys, the messages can be encrypted. It's just worthless as they can now decrypt them.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Sure, when they say WhatsApp can't access the encrypted messages they could mean that Meta/another internal group has access to the encrypted messages and they decrypt them in order to provide them to WhatsApp/whoever.

    (Obviously, as someone pointed out, this is all assuming that he's telling the truth in some legalistic way and not just flat out lying.)

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