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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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[โ€“] qprimed@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

even better - as far as I am aware the client isn't open (and even if it were, is your installed build from the same source?).

so, even if the keys are local only, who says there isn't a hidden API that simply sends locally decrypted content back to a remotely calling endpoint?

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Or steganographically leaks back the keys ...