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Yeah, the article is super-vague about that: > In 2016, WhatsApp added end-to-end encryption, a security feature that scrambles people’s messages so that outsi
by mundo 8y ago
Yeah, the article is super-vague about that:
> In 2016, WhatsApp added end-to-end encryption, a security feature that scrambles people’s messages so that outsiders, including WhatsApp’s owners, can’t read them. Facebook executives wanted to make it easier for businesses to use its tools, and WhatsApp executives believed that doing so would require some weakening of its encryption.
Not sure what this means. "Weaken" is kind of a confusing term, FB either has access to the message content to feed in to adsense's gaping maw or they don't.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> FB either has access to the message content to feed in to adsense's gaping maw or they don't There is a lot of grey area in between. How metadata is treated, whether encryption is turned on by default, what about the messages are encrypted, how they're encrypted, et cetera.
- Pyxl101 8y agoI don't understand why allowing businesses to use WhatsApp would require weakening its encryption. Can anyone parse the meaning of this, or speculate about why that would be necessary? It makes no sense to me. Are they perhaps implying some kind of central analysis of sent messages for targeting purposes?
- jlarocco 8y agoMy guess is that Facebook wanted to build in some kind of MITM attack so that businesses could see a log of their employee messages.
- zaphar 8y agoIf I were to speculate, and it would definitely be speculation, I would say it was adding some sort of key escrow for encrypted chats in the Enterprise. It's not uncommon for escrow to be a requirement in Enterprise encryption products.
- zero_intp 8y agoThis is my experience as well.