Article 293J8 WhatsApp vulnerability explained: by the man who discovered it | Tobias Boelter

WhatsApp vulnerability explained: by the man who discovered it | Tobias Boelter

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Facebook denies it is deliberate loophole but Tobias Boelter sets out what the vulnerability is and why it matters

There was an outcry when the Guardian published my information regarding a vulnerability within WhatsApp's implementation of end-to-end encryption, but much of the response misses the point.

Most of the arguments seem to revolve around what is and isn't a backdoor. You can argue that we are looking at a vulnerability which would be something that is there by error, or a backdoor, which would be something that is there deliberately.

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