Simon Elvery on Nostr: Today’s Saturday Paper yarn about #ICAC mentions intercepted #WhatsApp messages. ...
Today’s Saturday Paper yarn about #ICAC mentions intercepted #WhatsApp messages. I’m very curious about how this interception works given that WhatsApp is somewhat famously end-to-end encrypted. Do we know the answer to that? #security
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2026-08-29 00:29:20 UTCEvent JSON
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