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What if they just gave up the ciphertext? They will have complied in the sense that the court would know everything WhatsApp knows about the content.
by erpellan 10y ago
What if they just gave up the ciphertext? They will have complied in the sense that the court would know everything WhatsApp knows about the content.
- JoshTriplett 10y agoThat'd be interesting to see. What's the process, in general, if you're served a warrant for something you don't have?
- ucaetano 10y agoThe judge explicitly requested that encryption is disabled. Which would mean pushing an update that disabled WhatsApp encryption worldwide. Also, the judge requested that "messages in the server that still haven't been encrypted" be handed over. It just shows the complete lack of understanding of how it works by the judge.