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Telegram is lying to you about privacy (donald.cat)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I've no proof of this, but technically the whatsapp app is closed source so they could push an update that collects the private keys, if they don't do this already

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    One way to prevent this is would be to re-sign the app with your own signing key and delete that key before court, I guess. But those people whose conversations appeared probably just had Google Drive plaintext backups enabled.

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