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Weisbrot: WhatsApp is not truly end-to-end encrypted
“They call themselves end to end encrypted, but the reality is if you have the private key, if you have the encryption key inside WhatsApp server, What's the point of calling it end-to-end encrypted? Because you need to send the message from your phone to them,…”
Weisbrot: WhatsApp Co-Founder Forfeited $400M Payout To Get Away From Zuckerberg
“The guy ended up telling Zuckerberg to F himself and he walked away from a four hundred million dollar, like partial payout. Just so he could walk away from the company and get away from it.”
Weisbrot: WhatsApp was used to spy on Jamal Khashoggi
“Applications that were used to spy on journalists like Khashoggi, and it was done through WhatsApp.”
Weisbrot: Encrypted messages stored today could destroy your life within 10 years
“Within 10 years, anything you say today that is stored on, let's say, WhatsApp server, or Signal server, or Telegram server, that can come back to destroy your life.”
Wade: WhatsApp exposes phone numbers to all members when added to groups
“WhatsApp not only does that, you can just be dropped in a group without your permission and everybody can see your phone number. Like I could just drop you in a group of a 150 people and they all have your phone number instantly.”
WhatsApp's architecture leaks unreleased features to developers during internal tests
“When I was at Meta on the WhatsApp side, we had that problem. The WhatsApp app for whatever reason is built in a way where you can, I don't know, maybe this is common. I don't know enough about mobile apps, but it's built in a way where you can break it down a…”