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Since WhatsApp is virtually a blackbox, their word for end-to-end encryption means nothing. Few 'bugs' in implementation and you have a nice backdoor.
by kbart 10y ago
Since WhatsApp is virtually a blackbox, their word for end-to-end encryption means nothing. Few 'bugs' in implementation and you have a nice backdoor.
- dnzm 10y ago> Few 'bugs' in implementation and you have a nice backdoor. Just one would be enough, methinks.
- martinko 10y agoTrue, but it would at least give them plausible deniability that they couldn't hand over plaintext messages, even if they wanted to.
- etatoby 10y agoThat's probably the entire purpose behind WhatsApp "encryption": to have their cake and eat it too.
- cderwin 10y ago> Few 'bugs' in implementation and you have a nice backdoor. This holds regardless of whether WhatsApp is a blackbox or not. Now, that doesn't make the claim of end-to-end encryption verifiable, but if you take Facebook's word for it, the bug bounty should be about as good a stalwart as there is against implementation bugs.