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Re:The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts by jsprogrammer on Friday July 10, 2015 @01:40AM (#9862461)
> there's absolutely no way for an end-user to determine if their messages are being encrypted (with whatsapp)

Watch the network traffic with Wireshark?

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Re:The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts by drcross on Friday July 10, 2015 @02:38AM (#9862586)
You cant see into the encrypted traffic to see if it's implemented or not.
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Re:The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts by jacquesm on Friday July 10, 2015 @04:48AM (#9862897)
But in the worst case you'll be able to see that it is plaintext.
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Re:The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts by em3rgent0rdr on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:07AM (#9863101)
I would expect any messaging app these days woud never send pafkets with plain text.
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