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Re:WhatsApp CEO on the controversy surrounding proposed Germ... by paulryanrogers on Sunday March 14, 2021 @01:45PM (#26457160)
Yet WA defaults to not notifying contacts when keys change. So silent interception is more likely to go unnoticed. And any app could send an automatic update with a backdoor at any moment.

Disassembly and analysis is also harder with binaries than original sources and an open, reproducible build process.

Re:WhatsApp CEO on the controversy surrounding proposed Germ... by foepys on Sunday March 14, 2021 @02:00PM (#26457266)
Did they change this? I distinctly remember that after WhatsApp introduced e2e encryption I got a message every time somebody got a new phone. Haven't seen one in a while, though.