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By now there's pretty much nothing NSA is not doing to collect information from everyone. Now I wonder if NSA is able to penetrate services like WhatsApp, Snap

• higherpurpose 13y ago
  You're kidding, right? Whatsapp especially is known for having a ton of security issues over the past year or two, and Snapchat is no better. The snaps still go through their servers, which means the NSA can still intercept them, and Snapchat has even admitted they keep the "unnopened" ones, and they even give them to authorities (decrypted).
• sitkack 13y ago
  Since the NSA taps the backbone, they have protocol analyzers that reverse engineer wire traffic to put it into semistructured form for processing with MapReduce. Nothing escaped them since the collection and the data deconstruction is separate.
• tP5n 13y ago
  you probably weren't serious, but in the case anyone else is unsure about this: whatsapp is and always has been broken from a security standpoint and there is no need for the/a NSA to penetrate anything in their case. i wonder how you could've missed out on what happened to snapchat lately though, two links as some sort of a short introduction: from late 2012, but a worthwhile read on whatsapp http://fileperms.org/whatsapp-is-broken-really-broken/ http://fileperms.org/whatsapp-is-broken-really-broken/ and in the case anyone missed the snapchat debacle http://lookup.gibsonsec.org/ http://lookup.gibsonsec.org/
  • vermontdevil 13y ago
    Of course not I'm not serious. But what is not accessible to NSA? However the fact that WhatsApp and Snapchat's popularity tells me that people are not really educated about their true privacy and how completely broken it is.