How Dutch Police Took Over Hansa, a Top Dark Web Market

Re:How Dutch Police Took Over Hansa, a Top Dark Web Market by codedokode on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:01PM (#16555000)

> They then made a copy of each server's entire drive, including ... every conversation that took place through its anonymized messaging system.

That's why you should not keep history. All messengers like WhatsApp that save history on the server have zero respect for privacy. A decent messenger should not save anything unless allowed by the user.

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Re:How Dutch Police Took Over Hansa, a Top Dark Web Market by 6ak74rfy on Friday March 09, 2018 @09:34PM (#16556781)

I don't think Whatsapp stores messages on their servers. They do only until they are delivered to all parties and delete after that. What will they even do with the messages if they stored them- they would be end to end encrypted and Whatsapp won't have the decryption keys.

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Re:How Dutch Police Took Over Hansa, a Top Dark Web Market by codedokode on Saturday March 10, 2018 @05:48AM (#16558000)

Well, WhatsApp might be not doing this, but other messengers save history on the server. And by the way , how do you know what WhatsApp really does if it has closed source code?

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Re:How Dutch Police Took Over Hansa, a Top Dark Web Market by hobofan on Saturday March 10, 2018 @03:10AM (#16557662)

> What will they even do with the messages if they stored them

You can still do metadata analysis on communication patterns between people, without knowing the content of the messages.

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Re:How Dutch Police Took Over Hansa, a Top Dark Web Market by filleduchaos on Saturday March 10, 2018 @02:36AM (#16557569)

That's...that's not how Whatsapp operates

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