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> at cost to the company If by "cost" you mean Meta being in the business of siphoning user behaviour, Meta controls the E in E2E a.k.a the apps, so it's a mat
by lloeki 3y ago
> at cost to the company
If by "cost" you mean Meta being in the business of siphoning user behaviour, Meta controls the E in E2E a.k.a the apps, so it's a matter of trusting them to not do covert on-device analysis + result exfiltration.
- xvector 3y agoPlenty of people have reverse-engineered the apps and found no evidence of this. They use the same protocol as Signal under the hood. Many cybersecurity engineers passionate about this stuff have worked for Meta. They, too, would have blown the whistle at some point.
- lloeki 3y agoThe E2E protocol is immaterial, it's about what the endpoint app does and which telemetry it reports. Not saying they do it, again it's about trust in the context of: - Meta (the company, not the employees) having a bad track record - Meta's business model being what it is (building profiles and selling tooling around that), creating tension with privacy matters
- xvector 3y agoTheir track record with E2EE is pretty great, given that they opt to disable WhatsApp in countries that ban E2EE instead of disabling E2EE.