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cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/71321898
Netzpoltik details that police are able to gain access in this way either through physical access to someone’s phone or by intercepting verification codes via a state-sanctioned phishing attack or intercepting SMS messages via telephone surveillance
Telegram and whatsapp never had encryption. Also - they just give your messages on law enforcement request, always have.
Signal - how does it work with signal again?
Telegram has shitty 1-to-1 encryption but no group encryption.
WhatsApp claims to use the same encryption algorithms as Signal, but you can’t audit it.
WhatsApp uses signal protocol
But that does not prevent Meta from accessing your messages.
How?
WhatsApp is owned by meta
Signal protocol is end to end encrypted
Yes. How does that happen? You open the app you type a message you hit send. In that process WhatsApp has access to your clear text message that they get from the keyboard. They can do whatever they want with that. They could encrypt your message with your key and also one of their keys. They could send those together so that they look like one message but at their servers split their copy off.
Damn