For open source messengers, you can check whether they actually encrypt your messages and whether the server has access to your encryption keys but what about WhatsApp? Since it’s not open source, you can’t be sure that the encryption keys aren’t sent to the server, right? Has there been a case where a government was able to access WhatsApp chats without reading them from the phone itself?
I’m leaving the original comment for transparency, but after further examination, I don’t endorse it anymore.
I’ll trust an analysis coming from a reputable, politically agnostic source. Springer is anything but.I guess now I have to read the abstract (Here is the PDF link for the original research paper in original format).
And while in here, on the topic of sources, for anyone reading this thread, doing the same mistake as me, here are the authors affiliations:
Gareth T. Davies, Kai Gellert, Tobias Handirk, Máté Horváth & Tibor Jager:
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Sebastian Faller & Julia Hesse:
IBM Research Europe – Zurich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland
Sebastian Faller:
ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Its a book of proceedings of a scientific conference, usually peer-reviewed. Springer publishes the proceedings but has nothing to do with the selection of the papers or their scientific quality… its just a service they provide, for a fee.
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