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Re:Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities by mort96 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:21PM (#16632789)
How do we know WhatsApp doesn't cooperate? It's closed source, and owned by Facebook no less, so how can we know there's no backdoor?
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Re:Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities by gagabity on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @07:23PM (#16633769)
You can analyse the traffic data being sent by the App, also there are third party Apps that work on the WhatsApp network.
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Re:Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities by mort96 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:42AM (#16636027)
You can maybe verify that the app doesn't currently send messages anywhere, but what if there's a way for Facebook to send a request to WhatsApp for a dump of all messages within a date range?
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