<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Alex, your question shows how easily we trust platforms the moment they claim to have encryption or be secure. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s the situation with WhatsApp: </div><div class="">"<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: medium; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption relies on the generation of unique security keys, using the acclaimed Signal protocol,</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: medium; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/05/whatsapp-rolls-out-full-encryption-to-a-billion-messenger-users" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important;">developed by Open Whisper Systems</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: medium; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, that are traded and verified between users to guarantee communications are secure and cannot be intercepted by a middleman. However, WhatsApp has the ability to force the generation of new encryption keys for offline users, unbeknown to the sender and recipient of the messages, and to make the sender re-encrypt messages with new keys and send them again for any messages that have not been marked as delivered.</span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The recipient is not made aware of this change in encryption, while the sender is only notified if they have opted-in to encryption warnings in settings, and only after the messages have been re-sent. This re-encryption and rebroadcasting effectively allows WhatsApp to intercept and read users’ messages.” </p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Read more at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-backdoor-allows-snooping-on-encrypted-messages" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-backdoor-allows-snooping-on-encrypted-messages</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 13 Jan 2017, at 18:46, Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" class="">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Alex</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nothing is impenetrable...<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);" class=""><b class="">Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div class=""><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);" class=""><b class="">Principal</b></span></div><div class=""><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: inherit;" class="">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><font class=""></font></span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">Skype: abu-jomo</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank" class="">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></div><font class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); " class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div class=""><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);" class=""><br class=""></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div class=""><br class="">On 13 Jan 2017, at 6:33 PM, alex watila via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">WhatsApp has end to end encryption. how will they Access the communication?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 Jan 2017 16:36, Nanjira Sambuli via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">I have serialised the interesting developments on the matter here: <a href="https://twitter.com/ninanjira/status/819809470544953344" class="">https://twitter.com/ninanjira/status/819809470544953344 </a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Interesting to note the amount of money invested in ‘online monitoring’ systems. </div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PS: Even WhatsApp isn’t the safe haven we imagined it to be! </div><div class="">
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