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nanokilo
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Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arre...
Forgive my naivety, but aren’t Whatsapp messages encrypted? If so, how can the authorities see what’s written in them?
josephagoss
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If people in the chat want him suspended, I guess it is those people with the complaint making a recording/listing of the chats and then passing the evidence onto authorities.
everly
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Someone in the group chat is a snitch.
fouc
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I thought only 1-to-1 messages were encrypted and group chat wasn't.
aitchnyu
on May 3, 2019
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Whatsapp does E2E for groups, which have upto 256 members. A Matrix dev said they scaled E2E to groups with thousands.
likpok
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The group chat is also encrypted, but anyone in the group chat can share the messages.
afterburner
on May 3, 2019
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Maybe someone snitched?
_frip
on May 3, 2019
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That is exactly what happened.
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