Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?

Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by wcathcart on Saturday September 28, 2019 @05:28PM (#21102992)

It's true in every country. We are a global service, and our policy on backdoors is the same everywhere: we do not have them and we vigorously oppose them.

Sometimes this leads to us being blocked. We were blocked in Brazil, for example, but that block was overturned in the courts.

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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by wruza on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:21PM (#21103302)

Thanks! What is your opinion on a rumor that FSB doesn’t have any complaints because they found unintentional/unknown vulnerability that allows them to read WhatsApp messages? Should WhatsApp users be concerned about that?

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Re:Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.? by e12e on Saturday September 28, 2019 @07:39PM (#21103847)

We do know that phones and tablets are vulnerable - so it's not like we're unaware of any backdoor that may also be used to subvert whatsapp.

It'd indeed be interesting to know if the FSB had some kind of baseband vulnerability that they'd used willy-nilly to facilitate dragnet surveillance.

I suspect William Binney was right though - blanket surveillance is just expensive and hides your needles in a mountain of hay; you really want high quality in the data you store in order to ease extraction of meaningful information / intelligence.

(that's not to say that aggregate meta data isn't interesting - just that with actual content noise is a problem)

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