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128 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 5h \ on: Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption news tech

As much as I’d love this to be true, I have to be very critical of any evidence claiming that WhatsApp is not secure.

The lawsuit does not provide any technical details to back up the rather sensational claims.

Is their implementation of the Signal protocol broken? Are they not using the Signal protocol?

Without answers to these questions, I have to assume that anybody could make these claims. Plausible, but without substance.

The same applies to this:

Pavel Durov, CEO of rival messaging app Telegram, also weighed in-. "You’d have to be braindead to believe WhatsApp is secure in 2026," he tweeted. "When we analyzed how WhatsApp implemented its 'encryption,' we found multiple attack vectors."

Ok, cool, guy from messenger, which doesn’t even encrypt chats by default. Where’s your analysis?

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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 2h

Sure, the content is encrypted in transit, but not at the endpoints

If you control the app (or the device, eg for non graphene phones) you see everything in cleartext

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby OP 2h

You make a fair point. Words are wind, as they say. When I read the description in the article describing workers at Meta requesting access from "engineering," I did wonder: how come this is the first we are hearing of this? Meta's a big company. Nobody was gossiping about the fact that employees could read users' messages? Seems like we would have heard about it by now if it was true.

On the other hand: isn't WhatsApp closed source? Aren't users already playing trust me bro with them?

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