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Messages are e2e, was under the impression that calls aren't yet.
by honestlyreally 9y ago
Messages are e2e, was under the impression that calls aren't yet.
- ilyagr 9y agoAccording to https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000618/end-to-end-encryption https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000618/end-to-end-encryption, they are. Not sure who is wrong or lying. Or perhaps the"latest version" of WhatsApp will be prohibited.
- honestlyreally 9y agoI stand corrected. Someone is obviously in the wrong here, have doubts whatsapp would ruin their business for a single country.
- connorcpu 9y agoPerhaps the government only cares about who is calling who and for how long?
- CogitoCogito 9y agoAren't the whatsapp messages sent over the net? I.e. wouldn't it be the case that the government could only see the outgoing IP address? I guess if they were very well organized and working with the telecoms, they could then maybe see the outgoing IP and assuming that IP were on a telecom network they also controlled they could turn that into a person. This is all assuming that they could even figure out which encrypted outgoing packets correspond to calls (maybe this isn't too bad considering call streams would maybe have a fairly standard packet rate, etc.?). Either way seems pretty hard without direct help from whatsapp.
- ihattendorf 9y agoIt's Facebook that has access to this metadata. > While the metadata is encrypted during transit, phone numbers, timestamps, connection duration, connection frequency, as well as user location are being stored on the company’s servers [0] [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.06817.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.06817.pdf