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A comment on Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” ... by Melatonic on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:55PM (#32954358)
Even with end to end encryption couldnt the app at the end also be just aggregating the data (or even transcribing audio) to send over separately?
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Re:Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” ... by lrvick on Friday September 23, 2022 @02:18PM (#32955351)
Yeah though this is more likely to be detected with basic network analysis. Selectively compromising the RNG seed would be much harder to detect without source code.
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