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Re:Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages by schoen on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @07:37PM (#21758377)
> even the best security researchers would not detect it

By examining only the network traffic, sure, but what about by examining the code?

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Re:Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages by bduerst on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @08:02PM (#21758539)
Is the facebook app open source?
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Re:Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages by schoen on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @08:54PM (#21758864)
Nope!

That hasn't necessarily stopped people from learning something about how it works, though.

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Re:Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages by chopin on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @03:32AM (#21760628)
true, but does someone do it? I remember that auditing Truecrypt was already a substantial deliberate undertaking.

And that' not even taking into account that it might be possible to push something different to each user.

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