For open source messengers, you can check whether they actually encrypt your messages and whether the server has access to your encryption keys but what about WhatsApp? Since it’s not open source, you can’t be sure that the encryption keys aren’t sent to the server, right? Has there been a case where a government was able to access WhatsApp chats without reading them from the phone itself?

  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I mean, they definitely use end to end encryption. The problem is that they’ve done nothing would convince people they’re not harvesting the content of the messages in the app before it’s encrypted and sent. And there is a long history of them handing over decrypted information to law enforcement upon request, without warrant.

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      1 year ago

      The problem is that they’ve done nothing would convince people they’re not harvesting the content of the messages in the app before it’s encrypted and sent.

      I assumed it was a more solid case than just that it’s technically possible. I was hoping for cases where we know they’ve done it.

      And there is a long history of them handing over decrypted information to law enforcement upon request, without warrant.

      Does that include message content though? That’s sorta the crux of what we’re talking about. Metadata for sure, but whether we know that they can read our message content, that’s afaik still unclear.