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Given the recent detainment of a French person who got detained because he said something bad about the current administration in his WhatsApp messages. It makes me wonder if WhatsApp is truly end to end encrypted as they claimed. How did they even single him out?

As a corollary question, if I were to pass Customs, and if I delete WhatsApp , Reddit etc just before I reach the counter, will they be able to find out that I just deleted the apps minutes ago? I’ll be deleting them from my phone but keep them on the cloud.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

~~Um... its been the rule for a while, nothing recent. Its just stupid. Somthing like: "Signal vs Briar" is also not allowed because it mentions a specific name of a software/OS/tool/platform/service~~

Nvm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can you point to it in the sidebar?

I don't think it exists

The same non-existent rule was used here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Nvm, I was thinking of the "No Mention of Specific Alternative OSes" rule

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Man I just can't get over all this free speech there is on Reddit. Just like how Twitter is legit America's Town Hall, if you're the "right kind" if American.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

WhatsApp uses client-side scanning, which breaks end-to-end encryption by recording data before it gets encrypted or after it gets decrypted.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Use screenshots instead of links.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I did upload a screenshot with the link, but I guess it's inaccessible... Here it is in full resolution

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you left out reddit's reason for removing the question

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Addressed already - tl;dr nonsensical (and as a bonus, the reason does not exist in their rule list)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

The oligarchy knows the whole tech sector is going to implode, and they’re trying to stave it off by curtailing criticism. Cute, and useless.

Go lemmings!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Customs and Border Protection agents have authority to request a foreign entrant (even with visa) to unlock their phones. They can also deny entry if the entrant doesn’t cooperate.

So they don’t need to have backdoor access to WhatsApp. They can get in through the front.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

My understanding is that this is what happened. They searched his phone, found the messages, then detained him.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

WhatsApp has long been known to not be private

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