A 10-month Commerce Department probe concluded Meta could view all WhatsApp messages in unencrypted form

  • Railcar8095@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Where’s the private key? I can get a new phone, log with WhatsApp and download all the historical messages without intruducing any additional password or key.

    I assume they have all the required data too.

    • MalMen@masto.pt
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      3 hours ago

      @Railcar8095 @zergtoshi actually is not my exlerience with whatsapp, since I have the backups disable, everytime I change phones I lost all my conversations. But since whatsapp is closed source, the app can indeed use encryption to comunicate p2p, but I will allways assume that the key is logged by meta, “just in case”

    • zergtoshi@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Sounds like a compromised phone in the sense that it doesn’t protect (and instead transmit) the private key.