Noo way, governments trying to increase surveillance of their citizens more? Impossible. Clearly all the governments involved care about our best interests.

For anyone not reading between the lines, the US, Israeli, and a bunch of other governments are paying for software that can spy on your WhatsApp messages through a client side malware attack directly against the app.

The most surprising part, to me, is that this is evidence that WhatsApp may actually have unbroken end to end encryption (which I think they’ve claimed for awhile, but I didn’t believe them.)

Edit: But then, this is mostly based on statements released by Meta, so maybe I’m just a sucker for believing them when they say it differently.