Reply to post: Re: "... a misuse, which is contractually prohibited."

WhatsApp slaps app hacker chaps on the rack for booby-trapped chat: NSO Group accused of illegal hacking by Facebook

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Re: "... a misuse, which is contractually prohibited."

'End to end' means client device to client device. Whatsapp/Facebook's servers direct the messages (and can presumably pick up a lot of metadata that way), but they can't decrypt the messages.

(Of course, we have only their word for that.)

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