4 ms·
The FBI can track who you talk to in-person, but they can not with WhatsApp at the moment. Thus WhatsApp is orders of magnitude more efficient.
by bhouston 10y ago
The FBI can track who you talk to in-person, but they can not with WhatsApp at the moment. Thus WhatsApp is orders of magnitude more efficient.
- zer0tonin 10y agoI doubt that, WhatsApp was bought by facebook to datamine contact lists, I'm pretty sure the FBI can request this data.
- ZetaTwo 10y agoDo you have any grounds for this statement whatsoever? Sounds a lot like baseless speculation. How would you imagine that FBI bypasses the end-to-end encryption?
- narrowrail 10y agoThe meta data of who talks to who is not encrypted. Edit: This is the whole problem tin-foilers have with Signal being the sole operator of servers and not allowing for federation.
- sfifs 10y agoplain old fashioned MITM with a court order accompanied by a gag order should be sufficient. Remember WhatsApp is BOTH the PKI infrastructure and the and the message transmitter. It is trivial for them to MITM by sending you and the recipient a different public key that they control and intermediate. The encryption prevents OTHERS from snooping on you. It doesn't protect you from WhatsApp itself - or the government acting with a warrant.