The same week that Meta was sued over claims that employees can access WhatsApp chat messages, WhatsApp rolls out a stricter security setting meant to protect users from government surveillance malware.
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@evacide You know what? AI needs to leak everything. Companies have no right to keep technical/scientific knowledge and other so-called intellectual "property" from the public.
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Someone clarify me please 🤔
If e2ee happens from client to client, means a closed proprietary app like WhatsApp can use the decrypted messages at the client level & do can steal it even though the connection is marketed as e2ee
Am I right, or I'm missing out something?
Coz I see the option to send last 5 messages to meta when I report a spam and block the number.
So the e2ee is useless if the client is closed source right? 🤔
@vivekanandanks The option to send the last 5 messages to meta when you report spam and block a number works because you are the one forwarding the message to Meta. This does not mean that e2ee does not work or what Meta is intercepting your messages any more than if Meta had the contents of your message because you had sent them a screeenshot.
So can't they just decrypt at client side and use the close nature of the client as backdoor and send messages to themselves using this feature or something like that? 🤔
@vivekanandanks Meta is aware that this would be very difficult to do in a way that would not eventually be detected and that the moment it was, WhatsApp would be worthless. There have been many attempts at forcing e2ee messengers to backdoor their products for LE and their pushback has always hinged on the argument that it would simply not be possible for them to do so without ceasing to be an e2ee messenger.
@vivekanandanks The most plausible proposal I have seen if one that would silently add a third party to the conversation.
@evacide as I read it, it is meta data and not content they have access to.
@evacide Is there any merit to the claim? An alleged mechanism by which they read messages?
@evacide Probably fake. Use to fool the rest of us. Haha
@evacide Someone was paid to write this headline?
@evacide Employees is the new government surveillance malware.
"Is my WhatsApp security advice a valid form of harm reduction for at-risk communities, or am I just lulling new victims into a false sense of security?" sure is a wonderful feeling to agonize over.
@evacide where do the ends of _end to end encryption_ start?