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hiq on April 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might b...

> I'm sorry, but that's not how computer software works. Anyone who knows what a basic block is can straightforwardly verify the claims WhatsApp is making.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11432096

fsflover on April 14, 2021 [–]

Even if you can verify that the encryption is indeed E2D, can you also be sure that your messages are not simultaneously transferred to Facebook before they are encrypted?

hiq on April 14, 2021 | [–]

I invite you to read the thread I linked, because this whole discussion has been rehashed several times over on HN already.

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