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Re:WhatsApp Encryption Said to Stymie Wiretap Order by mtgx on Saturday March 12, 2016 @07:06PM (#11275420)
I think the bigger problem is that Whatsapp doesn't even allow users to verify each other's fingerprints. Whatsapp could disable the end-to-end encryption and you would have no clue that they did that.
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Re:WhatsApp Encryption Said to Stymie Wiretap Order by mike_hearn on Sunday March 13, 2016 @12:19PM (#11278185)
I've seen leaked UI screenshots that do have that feature. And Moxie has said that such a feature was always planned.

WhatsApp supports an ungodly number of platforms. Probably they don't want to expose encryption in the UI until the feature/platform matrix is complete and there are no edge cases where traffic is unencrypted.

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