Open Whispers response to The Guardian article, maintaining it is not a backdoor:

The only question it might be reasonable to ask is whether these safety number change notifications should be "blocking" or "non-blocking." In other words, when a contact's key changes, should WhatsApp require the user to manually verify the new key before continuing, or should WhatsApp display an advisory notification and continue without blocking the user.

https://whispersystems.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/


Moses



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