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This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message (theintercept.com)

submitted 5 months ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is not a WhatsApp exclusive problem. MITM traffic analysis for metadata packet interception is a common technique.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Indeed, the only thing WhatsApp-specific in this story is that WhatsApp engineers are the ones pointing out this attack vector and saying someone should maybe do something about it. A lot of the replies here don't seem to understand that this vulnerability applies equally to almost all messaging apps - hardly any of them even pad their messages to a fixed size, much less send cover traffic and/or delay messages. 😦