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Re:WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide T... by CiPHPerCoder on Monday May 02, 2016 @04:31PM (#11615310)
That would require a backdoor that didn't exist at the time and that WhatsApp doesn't want to create.
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Re:WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide T... by TearsInTheRain on Monday May 02, 2016 @05:06PM (#11615603)
It would require more than a backdoor but dozens of data centers as well as the software and personnel to manage them all
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