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unless you flex your cryptoanarchist power and enshrine strong encryption into your architecture. what WhatsApp did. make it costly for the new owner to change

by slim 6y ago

unless you flex your cryptoanarchist power and enshrine strong encryption into your architecture. what WhatsApp did. make it costly for the new owner to change their minds.

wizzwizz4 6y ago
They still managed, though. Facebook has the technical ability to just walk around all of your encryption.
- slim 6y ago
  not past conversations thanks to forward secrecy
  - wizzwizz4 6y ago
    Except they control the app that shows you those conversations. Unless you deleted them, they have the technical ability to see them.
    - Polylactic_acid 6y ago
      Exactly. Literally nothing stops them from pushing an update that uses your device to decrypt your history and send it back to facebook.
monadic2 6y ago
Surely you can't be using WhatsApp as an example of strong encryption.... that app is hardly auditable.