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The article somewhat suggests that the guy used the airport's wifi. In this case and assuming that the wifi network supports government surveillance by design,
by timkam 3y ago
The article somewhat suggests that the guy used the airport's wifi. In this case and assuming that the wifi network supports government surveillance by design, end-to-end encryption does not help.
- laingc 3y agoThat is simply not correct. With properly implemented E2EE, you can communicate confidently over a completely insecure channel. You could post the entire data stream publicly on the internet with no loss of privacy.
- timkam 3y agoSorry, to refine my comment: what typical B2C messengers and social media apps sell as end-to-end encryption does not help. Is this correct?
- pests 3y agoNo? What do you dislike about current E2EE?
- timkam 3y agoI would still assume that with apps like Snapchat, there are inherent problems on meta-level (from an E2EE view) because for the users, Snapchat is essentially a trusted third party, providing governance/management features. But it can well be that Snapchat does not provide E2EE; I cannot see any remarks about it on their webpage. However, on the WhatsApp webpage, you can find the E2EE hand-waving that I was alluding to: https://faq.whatsapp.com/820124435853543 https://faq.whatsapp.com/820124435853543 "WhatsApp _considers_ chats with businesses that use the WhatsApp Business app or manage and store customer messages themselves to be end-to-end encrypted." And later, they write that in many cases, Meta can actually read the messages.
- klmr 3y agoThe entire point of TLS (let alone E2EE!) is to make something like this particular scenario safe.