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Is this anything new, though? The communications haven't been E2E protected ever since people started using phones.

• dangerface 5y ago
  Because E2E didn't exist when the phone was invented but there have been significant improvements since then.
  • _jal 5y ago
    Not POTS, but cell phones could have been E2E at least since cellular switched to digital.
    • gruez 5y ago
      The first digital phones ran on 56 bit (symmetric?) encryption. They certainty weren't powerful enough to run public key cryptography at safe key sizes, which is needed for secure e2e.
      • _jal 5y ago
        Not at key sizes considered safe today, but 384 bit RSA was considered secure for some uses around then. The RSA-155 Challenge (512 bits) was not beaten until 1999.
• eitland 5y ago
  No, but stock phones haven't always been spying on users client side.