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this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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Came here to say that.
Paragon, an Israeli spyware company, has been finding and using a lot of WhatsApp exploits to deliver malware. Nobody would be surprised if Israel forces Paragon to give them the best exploits.
So I don't think they even need to provide evidence for this.
Also meta has been caught adding extra tracking code. At one point, if you had any of their apps , they could track many sites even in private browser tabs. I read the exploit description on lemmy a few days ago.
And the owner of meta is closely associated with the American government.
Rare Iran W.
The messages might be end-to-end encrypted but what about the meta data? They might not have GPS coordinates but WiFi hot spots names have long been geo-located by the tech giants (its more power effient and works for devices without GPS). They cant read the messages but they should be able to tell where they are going. And If they can link the identity of a target to a whatsapp account there is a very good chance that account is talking to other potential targets.
If your goal is to target an individual and anyone they are talking to for assassination, a missile can delete a house associated with that WiFi name. Meta data and some open source intelegance is all you need.
This is the world we live in.
End to end encryption is irrelevant when its performed by a closed source app developed by a megacorporation (Facebook). They have the encryption keys, its just a matter of how big the incentive is to give them up (in this case, the US government can look at them and they'll bend over and spread cheeks)
Very true. Just want to point out the message is irrelevant for this purpose.
Why use proprietary when standards work just fine, now that apple finally supports RCS?
Because RCS is a closed standard. I'm not downloading Google Messages (or any closed source app for that matter) to use an "open standard".
I used to think that too, but it's so far only Google Messages and Apple iMessage? GSMA only added E2EE in RCS recently, Google is still using their own thing on top and Apple nothing yet. You have to be a member of GSMA to read the whole spec.