Reply to post: Re: No privacy for the public

WhatsApp security snafu allows sneaky 'message manipulation'

Anonymous Coward
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Re: No privacy for the public

The way the WhatApp protocol works for group chats is that the sending client encrypts the message being sent individually for each member of the group, marks that message as part of a group chat and sends every copy of the message to whatsapp for dissemination,

So group chat messages are actually private messages being "disguised" as a group message.

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