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The unfortunate truth about e2ee is that most people do not understand what it really means, and what real drawbacks it has, like difficulties in multidevice sy
by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
The unfortunate truth about e2ee is that most people do not understand what it really means, and what real drawbacks it has, like difficulties in multidevice sync, establishing identify of a chat partner, etc.
Users expect e2ee to magically work just like non-encrypted service, but with encryption, pointing to other services that do that, not realising that it is a security theater more often than not.
- mandmandam 5y agoIf that's true then why are the Tories and Blairites trying so hard to ban it?
- ipaddr 5y agoI remember when cellphones came out and the problems we had when a phone would go into a zone where it was halfway between towers. The technicals do make things more complex but these are solvable problems that different developers will attack in different ways.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoYes, by introducing the security theater. When was the last time you checked your Signal contact's fingerprints? Oh, you trust singal? That's ironiс, considering the fact that server operator is the main adversary in the e2ee threat model.
- spiderice 5y agoI'm fairly confident that the UK isn't campaigning against encryption to make multi device sync work better