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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by giancarlostoro on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @06:21PM (#20349515)
My concern there is my understanding has always been that WhatsApp implements end to end encryption through the Signal protocol, how can images be stored and be considered end-to-end encrypted? So are only text messages end-to-end? Ignoring logs being uploaded to the cloud.

I wouldn't send any sensitive pictures over WhatsApp then.

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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by octorian on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @10:48PM (#20351086)
Because the actual data for those images, that is stored on Facebook's media servers, is just a blob of ciphertext. Only the sending and receiving clients actually have the keys, not the servers.
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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by justapassenger on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @09:48PM (#20350835)
E2E encryption doesn't mean P2P networking. Data still flows through servers.
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Re:Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages by kabwj on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @07:32PM (#20350083)
Probably blob store, not just image store.
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