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Is WhatsApp bad for privacy?
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this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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They would better hide those evidences as best as they can, or they would lose a useful source of informations.
That's the whole game of intelligence: to be a step ahead of the opponent, it must believe its safe so you can steal useful informations. As soon as the breach is discovered, it ceases to be useful.
Sure. My point is that, as far as I believe anyone is currently aware, there is no evidence that any law enforcement agency has ever accessed the content of encrypted WhatsApp messages. That does not mean that it has never happened either, but anyone positively claiming so is doing it without actual evidence, which is something we should probably avoid doing.
We can assess the security of the app though. And we should. And we should also bring awareness to the problems of closed sources.