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If the Twitter acquisition and the published whatsapp chats between musk and dozens of other billionaires/politicians/ceos and public figures showed me anything
by theCrowing 4y ago
If the Twitter acquisition and the published whatsapp chats between musk and dozens of other billionaires/politicians/ceos and public figures showed me anything. Is that random people on hackernews and reddit take their communication way more serious than them. I don't know what your communication consists of but I need to activate e2e maybe 1-2 times a year. Don't get me wrong I get that making encryption the standard should be the way to go but comments like these are irrelevant for 99% of people and if you have the need for real secure communication you would host it yourself. It's the same for email 99% don't need PGP and if you really do you shouldn't use email in the first place.
- palata 4y agoThere are the people who don't want a specific message to leak (politicians, journalists), and then there is the whole surveillance capitalism story. We need e2ee so that companies cannot profile entire populations using the content of their messages (they can still do a lot with metadata, admittedly).
- palata 4y agoThis reasoning is the reason why better alternatives struggle. "I get that it would be better, but I don't care so I won't use the better alternatives".
- theCrowing 4y agomore private ≠ better
- palata 4y ago"Don't get me wrong I get that making encryption the standard should be the way to go" That did sound like saying "it would be better to make encryption the standard", didn't it?