&gt; Are you suggesting that the ability to completely circumvent a system doesn&#x27;t make that system broken?<p>A system can be broken without being useless.<p>&gt;If the goal of WhatsApp encryption is to protect against surveillance<p>You skipped an import word from the post you replied to: &quot;mass&quot;. Even with a hole in SS7, it makes it impractical to collect messages from everyone, even if it&#x27;s practical to collect messages from specific targets.