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That's not the e2e encryption protocol that they hacked, but the SMS-based authentication and unencrypted chats that are stored on the server in the plain. The state has control of SMS, so it can impersonate you. This would seem to be a potential problem for any service that's backing itself into SMS, but here the attack would not be possible as messages aren't shared across devices on e.g. Signal and WhatsApp.



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