Bombshell Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened
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#backdoor #2g #gprs #encryption
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Bombshell Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened
Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. See More → A weakness in the algorithm used to encrypt cellphone data in the 1990s and 2000s allowed hackers to spy on some internet…
Facebook wants to analyze encrypted WhatsApp messages "for ads"
TL;DR
Facebook has hired a team of researchers for the purpose of analyzing WhatsApp encryption.
The goal would be to have ways to data-mine WhatsApp messages without actually decrypting them.
One report alleges that Facebook is doing this for ad purposes.
https://www.androidauthority.com/whatsapp-encryption-ads-2728774/
#WhatsApp #Facebook #fb #encryption
TL;DR
Facebook has hired a team of researchers for the purpose of analyzing WhatsApp encryption.
The goal would be to have ways to data-mine WhatsApp messages without actually decrypting them.
One report alleges that Facebook is doing this for ad purposes.
https://www.androidauthority.com/whatsapp-encryption-ads-2728774/
#WhatsApp #Facebook #fb #encryption
Android Authority
Report: Facebook wants to analyze encrypted WhatsApp messages for ads
Facebook has hired a team of researchers to "crack" WhatsApp encryption without actually decrypting it. Why? For ads, according to a report.