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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfuncti... by crummy on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:38PM (#19365210)
How does encryption work for group chats on WhatsApp? Could Facebook have moderated these messages to prevent the attacks or is the content still hidden to them?
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dysfuncti... by zokier on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @03:54AM (#19366164)
WhatsApp supposedly uses signal protocol, which implies that the messages are e2e encrypted and fb doesn't have any visibility to the contents. Of course like always it is difficult to say what capabilities fb really has.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/18/end-to-end-for-everyone/

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