Re:There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'
by FabHK on Saturday January 14, 2017 @02:46PM
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I'm surprised at your negative take. The article you link is from 2014. They do encrypt chats now, and group chats, and voice, and video, all e2e, as far as I can tell.
My understanding is that the developers sit in Berlin, but the legal entity is in Switzerland.
Their privacy policy [1] states that they retain logs for 72h, and not much else. Only hashed contact info (emails/phone numbers) are uploaded, after opt-in. It all sounds very reasonable.
Your argument seems to be that they're an untrustworthy mess - but I don't see much evidence of that, except for possibly some braggadocio in that old article.
> Check out some of the code.
Yes, it is on github [2], so you can do that, which is nice.
My understanding is that the developers sit in Berlin, but the legal entity is in Switzerland.
Their privacy policy [1] states that they retain logs for 72h, and not much else. Only hashed contact info (emails/phone numbers) are uploaded, after opt-in. It all sounds very reasonable.
Your argument seems to be that they're an untrustworthy mess - but I don't see much evidence of that, except for possibly some braggadocio in that old article.
> Check out some of the code.
Yes, it is on github [2], so you can do that, which is nice.
[1] https://medium.com/wire-news/simple-privacy-policy-72-hour-l...
[2] https://github.com/wireapp