Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested for Group Chat"

Re:Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested fo... by nanokilo on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:56PM (#19815126)

Forgive my naivety, but aren’t Whatsapp messages encrypted? If so, how can the authorities see what’s written in them?

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Re:Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested fo... by josephagoss on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:00PM (#19815149)

If people in the chat want him suspended, I guess it is those people with the complaint making a recording/listing of the chats and then passing the evidence onto authorities.

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Re:Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested fo... by everly on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:59PM (#19815142)

Someone in the group chat is a snitch.

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Re:Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested fo... by fouc on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:47PM (#19815351)

I thought only 1-to-1 messages were encrypted and group chat wasn't.

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Re:Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested fo... by aitchnyu on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:48AM (#19816387)

Whatsapp does E2E for groups, which have upto 256 members. A Matrix dev said they scaled E2E to groups with thousands.

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Re:Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested fo... by likpok on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:55PM (#19815382)

The group chat is also encrypted, but anyone in the group chat can share the messages.

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Re:Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested fo... by afterburner on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:00PM (#19815146)

Maybe someone snitched?

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Re:Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested fo... by _frip on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:02PM (#19815157)

That is exactly what happened.

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