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Call me sceptic, but does not whatsapp see what you are typing when you are creating messages? They need to log the keydown event somehow, right? And the predi
by omgomgomgomg 4y ago
Call me sceptic, but does not whatsapp see what you are typing when you are creating messages?
They need to log the keydown event somehow, right?
And the predictive text spits out what it thinks you want to type.
And backups are possible even if you never had one before.
This is so very dodgy to me.
Maybe its e2e from the moment you submit until it arrives at the desired destination.
Which brings me to the next issue, they need to parse the text to display and when you quote a text, does it just blindly quote a blurb?
I do not believe in conspiracies and such, but there are so many double speech possibilities here...
- josh2600 4y agoIf it ain't open-source, you can't trust it. Signal or GTFO.
- deejaaymac 4y agoI trust matrix over signal. signal has a shitcoin and the new ceo is sketch.
- seanw444 4y agoI trust XMPP over Matrix. Both for security and less bloat.
- skrowl 4y ago[dead]
- Smaug123 4y agoI believe you don't know the meaning of the term "end-to-end encryption". Obviously the application itself (and the phone) can see the text you put into it, because it has to display that text. "End-to-end encrypted" means "from the moment the text leaves the phone, to the moment the text arrives at the recipient's phone, the text is encrypted such that no intermediate party can read it". You must of course trust or verify that the WhatsApp app isn't leaking your text, that the keyboard you are using isn't leaking your text, that Android or iOS or whatever isn't leaking your text, that you yourself aren't somehow taking unencrypted backups and you aren't using whatever unencrypted-backup features WhatsApp might make available, etc.
- omgomgomgomg 4y agoThat is all good and clear, but its not open source and the government would not need have a back door, they can just request the received messages, or am I wrong here?