WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you talk to reports them

Re:WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you... by aborsy on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:32AM (#28455596)

I thought WhatsApp is end to end encrypted, no?!

The article is written confusingly. It looked as if Facebook has private keys, and WhatsApp is not end to end encrypted.

But considering this:

>> Those contractors, which Facebook acknowledges, reportedly spend their days sifting through content that WhatsApp users and the service's own algorithms flag.

Does Facebook use automated tools and perform “Client-side Scanning” ?

That also defeats the purpose of end to end encryption.

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Re:WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you... by piva00 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:47AM (#28455701)

Nothing stops it from sending the unencrypted version when someone reports a message they can read, it's just grabbing the plain text and sending to moderation.

Completely abusable... So E2E encryption doesn't really save us here.

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Re:WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you... by sidcool on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:36AM (#28455629)

Same here. I think so too. It was validated by OpenWhisper systems.

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Re:WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you... by TheChaplain on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:53AM (#28455748)

Correct, it is e2e, the messages are delivered intact to the receiver.

It's just that the receivers are leaking.

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Re:WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you... by alias_neo on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:13AM (#28455930)

You are aware that Open Whisper Systems are the person(s)[0] who wrote WhatsApp's encryption protocol, right?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike

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Re:WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you... by abcd_f on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:52AM (#28455743)

I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic, but I sure hope that you are.

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Re:WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you... by KaiserPro on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:08AM (#28455871)

https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp/ they had a business relationship for at least two years.

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Re:WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you... by alias_neo on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:14AM (#28455938)

I think that's their point. Its not just that OWS validated WhatsApps algo, they WROTE it.

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