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Re:Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices by boudin on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @01:35AM (#44306924)
E2E encryption does not protect against any of this. Whatsapp can still decrypt messages locally and feed back information to meta.
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Re:Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices by closewith on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:27AM (#44307146)
TBF, no-one's as-yet found a Meta binary doing this.
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Re:Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices by fcpk on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:18AM (#44307776)
you mean things like having a localhost server running on android service to bypass tracking restrictions and run all of your stuff illegally?
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Re:Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices by closewith on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @05:05AM (#44308053)
Well, yes, they have been found to bypass tracking restrictions, most recently using Local Mess (https://localmess.github.io/), but they haven't been found exfiltrating WhatsApp private keys or messages in plaintext. And people are looking for this specifically.
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