Are you kidding me? They used WhatsApp for intelligence communication?

“We will use Facebook Messenger, which is clearly, the better of the two”

Well it had a lock icon. You can’t just make those up!

I’m shocked! …that so far they were using whatsapp.

Hmm yes, state “encryption”. Waiting for the day they find out it’s broken and attackers had access to conversations for a few months (being slightly serious, I don’t know what protocol they intend to use that would surpass or equal the Signal protocol, unless it’s a state owned app that they can vet which is based on the same protocol)

Any intelligence agency who legitimately thought that app was ever secure after simple OSINT techniques reveal otherwise needs to be overhauled from the top down.