> Unless they somehow hacked the encryption, you're still going to need a connection to the phone's WhatsApp client. Apologies if I sound a bit naive, but what

> Unless they somehow hacked the encryption, you're still going to need a connection to the phone's WhatsApp client. Apologies if I sound a bit naive, but what would be there to "hack"? WhatsApp clients are available for many platforms, whatever encryption they might be using can easily be figured out by decompiling the code, and if they are using a key on the client side to do any encryption, that key is available for extraction from the distributed client too. Basically, my question is what can a closed source downloadable client do to protect the encryption it uses to connect to a public network?