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Will here from WhatsApp. Really agree with this comment. What this article is really about is a long-known issue that affects all internet traffic, not a vulnerability in WhatsApp …

It's true in every country. We are a global service, and our policy on backdoors is the same everywhere: we do not have them and we vigorously oppose them. Sometimes this leads to …

We do not. You don't have to take our word on this -- I wouldn't want you to. As others on this thread have pointed out it's possible enough to tear through our binaries that if we…

Will not. We are completely opposed to this. Backdoors are a horrible idea and any government who suggests them is proposing weakening the security and privacy of everyone.

We were surprised to read this story and are not aware of discussions that would force us to change our product. We believe people have a fundamental right to have private conversa…

I wasn't involved in the talk so can't speak in detail to it, but as I understand it the purpose of it was to explore spaces other than messaging. For example, one of the applicati…

We haven't added a backdoor to WhatsApp. The Forbes contributor referred to a technical talk about client side AI in general to conclude that we might do client side scanning of co…