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by wcathcart 2y ago
Will here from WhatsApp. Really agree with this comment. What this article is really about is a long-known issue that affects all internet traffic, not a vulnerability in WhatsApp and the article risks a ton of confusion for people who rel
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by wcathcart 7y ago
It's true in every country. We are a global service, and our policy on backdoors is the same everywhere: we do not have them and we vigorously oppose them. Sometimes this leads to us being blocked. We were blocked in Brazil, for exam
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by wcathcart 7y ago
We do not. You don't have to take our word on this -- I wouldn't want you to. As others on this thread have pointed out it's possible enough to tear through our binaries that if we did have a backdoor it would be discovered.
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by wcathcart 7y ago
Will not. We are completely opposed to this. Backdoors are a horrible idea and any government who suggests them is proposing weakening the security and privacy of everyone.
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by wcathcart 7y ago
We were surprised to read this story and are not aware of discussions that would force us to change our product. We believe people have a fundamental right to have private conversations. End-to-end encryption protects that right for over a
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by wcathcart 7y ago
I wasn't involved in the talk so can't speak in detail to it, but as I understand it the purpose of it was to explore spaces other than messaging. For example, one of the applications they showed was making abuse detection more r
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by wcathcart 7y ago
We haven't added a backdoor to WhatsApp. The Forbes contributor referred to a technical talk about client side AI in general to conclude that we might do client side scanning of content on WhatsApp for anti-abuse purposes. To be cryst