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Australian Politicians warned to 'watch out' as integrity commission could access encrypted texts on WhatsApp and Signal (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How would they access these e2e encrypted chats though?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is something I would also like to know.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Pegasus or other ways to compromise the device directly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

by accessing one of the ends, where the message is decrypted upon arrival.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

https://www.securityweek.com/iranian-hackers-target-academic-researcher-whatsapp-linkedin https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/iran-hackers-bypassing-whatsapp-encryption-target-dissent-reports

but i also remember some mention to groups just sending some text, ... and they would exploit it somehow by technical exploits alone, no social engineering