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The new system will have state encryption and WhatsApp will no longer be used for communication.

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[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Are you kidding me? They used WhatsApp for intelligence communication?

[–] gomp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm shocked! ...that so far they were using whatsapp.

[–] Anonymoose@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Well it had a lock icon. You can't just make those up!

[–] doomkernel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

"We will use Facebook Messenger, which is clearly, the better of the two"

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 0 points 1 year ago

Hmm yes, state "encryption". Waiting for the day they find out it's broken and attackers had access to conversations for a few months (being slightly serious, I don't know what protocol they intend to use that would surpass or equal the Signal protocol, unless it's a state owned app that they can vet which is based on the same protocol)

[–] ihavenopeopleskills@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Any intelligence agency who legitimately thought that app was ever secure after simple OSINT techniques reveal otherwise needs to be overhauled from the top down.