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ICE officials confirm they are using Graphite spyware to intercept encrypted messages, saying it is primarily used to target fentanyl traffickers (www.npr.org)
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[–] orionsbelt@midwest.social 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

tldr: the “encrypted” messages are from whatsapp using a zero click exploit.

no mention of any other e2ee messengers.

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

Aka infect target and read message after decrypt. No encrypt actually broke and no message actually intercept.

[–] logging_strict@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

and it's already known whatsapp is dodgy af. Still there are people saying, but everyone is using whatsapp (implying so should you).

Can't fix stupid

https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm

Scroll over to whatsapp column on the right hand side and read the entire column.