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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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