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WhatsApp and Telegram blocked in Russia as Meta designated an ‘extremist organization’

WhatsApp and Telegram blocked in Russia | Octagonal stop sign shown

Both WhatsApp and Telegram have been blocked in Russia as the government tries to force people to use its unencrypted WeChat clone, Max. All messages sent and received in Max can be read by the government.

The government also blocked access to Facebook and Instagram, and designated parent company Meta as “an extremist organization” …

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Lawsuit claims WhatsApp encryption is a lie; cryptography professor weighs in

Lawsuit claims WhatsApp encryption is a lie | WhatsApp seen on the home screen of an iPhone

Both the founders of WhatsApp and current owner Meta state that the app uses end-to-end encryption, meaning that nobody outside the chat can access the content. A lawsuit claims that this isn’t true and that anyone inside Meta can get full access to all of the messages sent or received by any WhatsApp user.

Johns Hopkins University professor and cryptographer Matthew Green has weighed in with a blog post analyzing the claims and likely reality …

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