Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoA federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut downwww.techspot.comexternal-linkmessage-square93linkfedilinkarrow-up1752arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: privacy@programming.dev
arrow-up1747arrow-down1external-linkA federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut downwww.techspot.comSahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square93linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: privacy@programming.dev
A 10-month Commerce Department probe concluded Meta could view all WhatsApp messages in unencrypted form
minus-squareikt@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agothought 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
minus-squarelogi@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoThat, 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.
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
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.