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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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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Where's the private key? I can get a new phone, log with WhatsApp and download all the historical messages without intruducing any additional password or key.

I assume they have all the required data too.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    @Railcar8095 @zergtoshi actually is not my exlerience with whatsapp, since I have the backups disable, everytime I change phones I lost all my conversations. But since whatsapp is closed source, the app can indeed use encryption to comunicate p2p, but I will allways assume that the key is logged by meta, "just in case"

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    Sounds like a compromised phone in the sense that it doesn't protect (and instead transmit) the private key.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That's not the phones fault, but how WhatsApp works

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    How is a phone not compromised if it hosts apps that play into the hands of evil actors?

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