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?
In a subpoena case in India, that turned out to be not true. WhatsApp admins hold keys to being able to do that under law pressure. They only guarantee it for 1-1 messages and statuses, and against “generic” actors for group chats…
Source please.
How do they get the keys?
Who is “they”?
I read about it long ago, it is a bit more complicated than that. https://haniahshafi.medium.com/are-whatsapp-group-chats-vulnerable-to-spying-despite-end-to-end-encryption-ab0e522fa8d9
May I ask you what is with this passive aggressive attempt at labelling me antisemitic?