NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

Re:NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at... by ryanlol on Friday November 01, 2019 @07:40AM (#21417756)

I don't think it's fair to call this a "backdoor". Because of E2EE the law enforcement access is limited to looking up IP addresses associated with whatsapp users and such.

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Re:NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at... by _trampeltier on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:34AM (#21418564)

That was my question. What information does WhatsApp share with the law enforcement. Just, as you said IP and so, or also the messages?

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Re:NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at... by dicknuckle on Friday November 01, 2019 @08:11PM (#21424999)

if it's truly end to end encrypted, they would only have metadata. which is what the NSA collects en masse from Telecom providers.

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Re:NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at... by ryanlol on Saturday November 02, 2019 @04:47AM (#21426578)

>which is what the NSA collects en masse from Telecom providers

What does that even mean? There are so many different kinds of metadata I'm not sure why it's useful to compare Telecom metadata collection to Whatsapp.

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Re:NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at... by tarcisiocjr on Sunday November 03, 2019 @05:54AM (#21433168)

Here in Brazil, if I understand corrected from some leaks, after the judicial request WhatsApp stop (or something related) the encryption between Bob and Alice. After that all conversations is in plain text and accessible to federal police.

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Re:NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at... by ryanlol on Sunday November 03, 2019 @03:05PM (#21436214)

Do they disable it or do they noisily mitm it?

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