• miss phant
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      1318 days ago

      WhatsApp does use that same Signal protocol for its messages but that’s very poor writing considering all the tracked metadata arguably makes it just as insecure as Telegram.

      • @Zorsith
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        1418 days ago

        Ownership by Facebook renders WhatsApp inherently untrustworthy.

      • Butt Pirate
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        518 days ago

        So the Hunter Biden case is a complete farce but I found it alarming that they were proving WhatsApp messages as evidence during the trial. Clearly the messages aren’t encrypted against Meta, or they hold keys users don’t know about or they wouldn’t be able to furnish messages.

        • partial_accumen
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          1818 days ago

          Or possibly a user’s phone who was a party to the Whatsapp conversation was collected as evidence and unlocked by the user.

    • @Dayroom7485@lemmy.world
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      618 days ago

      I might be missing the point, but isn’t this a decently dumbed-down description of the difference between services that are end-to-end encrypted and those that are not?

        • borari
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          217 days ago

          Ah, gotcha. I thought your gripe was with the encrypted vs end to end encrypted bit.