---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: carlo von lynX Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:26:50 +0100 Subject: [secu-share] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy? To: liberationtech@mailman.stanford.edu Concerning Whatsapp there is a very interesting clue in a thread on "messaging" that suggests users will never know if end-to-end encryption is being used, since the server decides whether they are allowed to, and the user is not informed. Knowing the NSA that means that Whatsapp would never encrypt anything end-to-end. Whatsapp should therefore be considered a Trojan horse for people seeking easy to use privacy. Read about that at https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/001133.html Careful on using that mailing list however. If I understood correctly it is being maintained by one of the developers of TextSecure, which is the end-to-end encryption system that has been integrated into Whatsapp, possibly with the purpose of looking good, making good headlines and never being actually run. http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-messaging/ Of course I assume everyone is operating in the best of intentions, including the NSA. This is just FYI. -- http://youbroketheinternet.org ircs://psyced.org/youbroketheinternet -- secu-share@lists.secushare.org https://lists.secushare.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/secu-share