Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from PCMag: A lawsuit claims that WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is a sham, and is demanding damages, but the app's parent company, Meta, calls the claims "false and absurd." The lawsuit was filed in a San Francisco US district court on Friday and c...
Not really, they use a derivate of Signals protocol. But this doesn’t stop them from making their closed source clients to forward the securely received messages to them.
An idea which comes to mind would be the “link device” feature: they invoke it to link their internal client to your phone and the apps hides it from the device list.
Encrypted from your phone to Meta, then from Meta to your contacts!
Not really, they use a derivate of Signals protocol. But this doesn’t stop them from making their closed source clients to forward the securely received messages to them. An idea which comes to mind would be the “link device” feature: they invoke it to link their internal client to your phone and the apps hides it from the device list.
Whoa! That’s end-to-end, times two! Twice as secure! /s