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Which is to say WhatsApp is perfectly secure as long as the hostile actor cannot access the WhatsApp backups. Only nation state actors might be able to do that.
by hated 6y ago
Which is to say WhatsApp is perfectly secure as long as the hostile actor cannot access the WhatsApp backups. Only nation state actors might be able to do that.
- HideousKojima 6y ago>Only nation state actors might be able to do that. Nah, all it takes is a good spear phishing campaign like the iCloud celebrity nudes leak a few years ago
- freshhawk 6y agoIsn't it more like "literally any LEO or pseudo-LEO in a 'friendly' country" at this point based on what we know at this point? I think the threat model here is less about a hostile actor subverting the backups than the extreme ease of access to all data on those systems that is given to law enforcement?
- mr_woozy 6y agoor until LEO or State Security compels / sidepushes a trojan app update via play store update. It's as trivial as that. Or just tap the baseband chip via the provider.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoYes but as a user you don't control this. That's the problem. Anyone you're talking to can activate cloud backups and there is no way to know.