Mark Zuckerberg’s statement during a podcast with Joe Rogan, underscore the limitations of encryption WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption in the face of device-level access, which means that theoretically, only the sender and recipient can read the messages. However, this encryption does not protect against access to the device itself. If an intelligence agency can access your phone physically or remotely through methods like spyware (e.g., Pegasus), they can view the messages in plain text before they are encrypted or after they are decrypted on the device. This is not a flaw in WhatsApp's encryption but a vulnerability at the device level. It is a discussion of a broader concerns about privacy, censorship, and government oversight.