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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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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

thought it was proper e2e

https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/

but if whatsapp owns both ends, what is stopping them from just reading the decrypted text? i duno crypto good enough

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    That, and if WhatsApp has the keys, then no amount of encryption is going to help.

    If I remember, the allegation was that they did keep all the keys and many employees could request them to decrypt specific sessions.

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