WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History

16 hours ago by floofloof to c/privacy

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1183337

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goatinspace 1 point 4 hours ago

“We kill people based on metadata.”

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artyom 1 point 4 hours ago

WhatsApp — by default, on most devices, for most users — automatically backs up your entire chat history to iCloud(iOS) or Google Drive (Android). This backup contains your decrypted messages. The plaintext. The thing the Signal Protocol just worked so hard to protect.

Stones in glass houses from Durov here. They don't even have encryption...

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possiblylinux127 0 points 12 hours ago

AI slop

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AwesomeLowlander 1 point 28 minutes ago

What are you going on about? It reads perfectly fine. Are we just throwing spurious accusations around now?

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voxel -2 points 13 hours ago