The lawsuit cites ‘courageous whistleblowers,’ but provides no technical evidence. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, calls the claims ‘absurd’ and warns that it plans to countersue.
The lawsuit cites ‘courageous whistleblowers,’ but provides no technical evidence. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, calls the claims ‘absurd’ and warns that it plans to countersue.
I don’t use WhatsApp, because I’m a homebody and none of the ten people I want to talk to use it. (Plus,.meta. Ugh.)
But the test for “is their encryption good enough to keep them from reading your messages” really needs to be “can you trivially lock yourself out of sent messages”.
If it’s easy for you to set up a new device and chat with your existing contacts without manually entering a code, then it’ll be equally easy for them to set up a fake device pretending to be you and read all of the same things.