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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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[–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

My favorite option is that they don’t access the encrypted communications, they access messages before encryption takes place and send copies home for safe keeping. With a closed source client they can do anything they want to the plaintext even if they handle the ciphertext appropriately.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, that or either of the ends is compromised by one of the various commercial spyware which offers zero-click installation of their software or the person you're talking to is intentionally recording the messages.

    End-to-End encryption only protects you from someone eavesdropping on the communication on the line. It doesn't secure the endpoints or make the participants trustworthy.

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