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Re:The most backdoor-looking bug I’ve ever seen (2021) by egberts1 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:26PM (#30016897)
WhatsApp’s Biggest problem is the lack of a default ENCRYPTION-ENABLeD for group chat.
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Re:The most backdoor-looking bug I’ve ever seen (2021) by Moodles on Friday January 21, 2022 @06:45AM (#30022198)
WhatsApp group chats are E2E. I actually worked on this. It is true (unless they’ve changed it) that the precise security guarantees of the group protocol are different, but it is still ends-to-ends encrypted.
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Re:The most backdoor-looking bug I’ve ever seen (2021) by md_ on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:58AM (#30019736)
Doesn’t Telegram not even support e2ee for group chats?
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Re:The most backdoor-looking bug I’ve ever seen (2021) by egberts1 on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:20AM (#30020671)
That’s right, nothing like default-EE2E-enabled group chat, viewable and auditable server code, AND encrypted-data-at-rest; like Signal, unlike Telegram.
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