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Two innocent men have been burned alive by a massive lynch mob after WhatsApp rumours branded them child abductors.
A large crowd gathered outside the police station after rumours spread about the two men.
A mob dragged two men out of a police station, savagely beat them and then set them on fire, killing them, after a false rumour was spread on WhatsApp about the pair being child kidnappers.
The mother of one of the men made a desperate plea for the crowd to stop as she watched the lynching unfold on a Facebook livestream.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46145986
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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday November 15 2018, @03:45PM
>The origin of anything shared on the app is impossible to trace.
I am sure that if the balls of zuckerberg or the phone maker or alphabet's CEO depended on the decryption of a wa message, it would get done NP.
But this is beside the point. What police should do:
round up all phones that were nearby as determined by the access tower.
Ask all the guys to unlock and show the whatsapp messages and only the whatsapp messages for that moment.
You don't comply, and if the jurisdiction does let you do so, a detailed traffic analysis is requested, if whatsapp does not comply you close whatsapp up. The citizen is perfectly able to encrypt all communication on his own dime, but no third parties should be allowed to make commercial endeavour out of obstruction of justice.
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