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?

  • cmeerw@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    In a subpoena case in India, that turned out to be not true.

    Source please.

    WhatsApp admins hold keys to being able to do that under law pressure.

    How do they get the keys?

    They only guarantee it for 1-1 messages and statuses, and against “generic” actors for group chats…

    Who is "they"?