Police could lawfully use bulk surveillance techniques to access messages from encrypted communications platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal, following a ruling by the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a court has heard.
WhatsApp has MITM on the server side which is how Facebook scans your messages for targeted adverts. E2EE on WhatsApp was a fantasy the moment Facebook bought it
That is different than Signal which (unless they changed something with the profiles thing) was always P2P E2EE. You’re sending encrypted messages directly to the other persons phone, not to a server.
WhatsApp has MITM on the server side which is how Facebook scans your messages for targeted adverts. E2EE on WhatsApp was a fantasy the moment Facebook bought it
That is different than Signal which (unless they changed something with the profiles thing) was always P2P E2EE. You’re sending encrypted messages directly to the other persons phone, not to a server.