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Re:Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices by mgraczyk on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:42PM (#44303717)
And they are legally required to do this in most places
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Re:Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices by luis8 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @06:26PM (#44304651)
I don't know why you are being downvoted.

https://transparency.meta.com/reports/government-data-reques...

They can't see your messages but then can give ips or accounts that can be inferred to be related given the info meta has access to

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Re:Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices by selcuka on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:41PM (#44305162)
Also take the "can't see your messages" statement with a grain of salt. Like the famous Lotus Notes backdoor [1] they might have given the government an easy(ier) way to decrypt those messages.

The backdoor in Lotus Notes (differential cryptography) wasn't a secret. It was public information. Ray Ozzie used it as a way to circumvent US encryption export laws. Today companies have to be more discrete.

[1] http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html

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