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WhatsApp is Signal under the hood. And as I recall, Moxie helped them set it up.
by espeed 8y ago
WhatsApp is Signal under the hood. And as I recall, Moxie helped them set it up.
- tptacek 8y agoWhatsApp is Signal Protocol under the hood. That does not make the two equivalent from a security perspective; Signal goes through a lot of extra trouble to protect metadata (note, for instance, how it didn't even really have user profiles until relatively recently).
- SEJeff 8y agoNot exactly. WhatsApp uses Signal's communication protocol, but has some flaws in the way they implemented it, by design. https://www.cyberscoop.com/whatsapp-signal-group-chat-vulnerability/ https://www.cyberscoop.com/whatsapp-signal-group-chat-vulner...