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Is WhatsApp safe? Not according to its ex-security chief | Proton (proton.me)
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[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 36 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Nothing suggests that WhatsApp’s encryption protocol has been broken or that Meta can read the contents of your conversations.

Nothing prevents them from reading the messages prior to encryption or after decryption.

[–] gila@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

https://faq.whatsapp.com/414631957536067/

Either the report function doesn't work like they say, or messages are stored decrypted, or they can decrypt messages at will based on a simple request from another user

Edit: fixed

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

hhttps://

I think I have to decrypt this url before I can open it

/edit: I did it! I was able to decrypt it!

https://faq.whatsapp.com/414631957536067/

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