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by ashitlerferad·10y ago·view on hn ↗
Source code is pretty useless when it is running on a proprietary platform on a device with a secondary chip running a buggy proprietary OS that has an always-on high-speed wireless network connection.

If you are using a mobile phone you have already lost in the security stakes.

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That's why providing the keys (or better: being able to supply my own) is essential.
You can do that if you really want, it takes about 10s of reverse engineering work to read or swap the keys. Won't do you any good though unless you constantly MITM yourself.
How exactly do I download my keys from WhatsApp?