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a) It's not a backdoor but an explicit design tradeoff. It's hypocritical to be calling people out for using terms correctly and then misuse the term backdoor.
by threeseed 5y ago
a) It's not a backdoor but an explicit design tradeoff. It's hypocritical to be calling people out for using terms correctly and then misuse the term backdoor.
b) The etymology of the term has been blurred by WhatsApp referring to it as both transport and encryption at rest. But historically it has not included the latter part.
- amelius 5y ago> It's hypocritical to be calling people out for using terms correctly and then misuse the term backdoor. No, it's not because it is another instance. Someone can have one thing right and another thing wrong. And whatever the true meaning of "E2EE", its use in this case is misleading at best, so I'm pretty sure that the profession does not approve of it.