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Re:WhatsApp is back online in Brazil by nickik on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:15AM (#11628046)
That only works in transport if the connection is not pinned. I don't know if they do pin, but they should.

If they pin then the NSA would have to actually have access to the data center and doing that much without getting noticed is quite hard.

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Re:WhatsApp is back online in Brazil by deleted_soon on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:03PM (#11629739)
True, but I bet that the NSA could force WhatsApp to issue certificates for fake keys. Obviously can't do that without being noticed, but they could still use it to spy on specific users if they wanted.
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