Re:Reporting a user to WhatsApp forwards a copy of recent me...
by beagle3 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @02:51PM
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Given that Jan Koum and Brian Acton both left a few hundred million USD on the table, and the reason was supposedly "changes to whatsapp that FB promised they wouldn't do", I would assume it is going to become perfectly wiretappable.
As a other comments in this discussion pointed, e2ee means nothing because (a) the client is closed source, auto-updating, and (b) 98%[0] of the users use Google's cloud backup which is unencrypted (and I suspect was done that way to have a quickly-wiretappable change to the WhatsApp ecosystem without making it patently obvious)
[0] Don't know where that comment took the number from, but it jives with my personal experience. I don't know if it is encrypted on iCloud for iPhone users.
As a other comments in this discussion pointed, e2ee means nothing because (a) the client is closed source, auto-updating, and (b) 98%[0] of the users use Google's cloud backup which is unencrypted (and I suspect was done that way to have a quickly-wiretappable change to the WhatsApp ecosystem without making it patently obvious)
[0] Don't know where that comment took the number from, but it jives with my personal experience. I don't know if it is encrypted on iCloud for iPhone users.