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A federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut down
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this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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It's not about being vulnerable. It's probably a very tight software.
It's just that Meta stores the private keys of the e2e encryption. So they can decrypt any and all chats if they want to.