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The page you linked even says "While this doesn't protect you from a malicious developer". The whole point of e2ee is that it needs to be able to protect you fr
by nightpool 3y ago
The page you linked even says "While this doesn't protect you from a malicious developer". The whole point of e2ee is that it needs to be able to protect you from a malicious developer. Native apps do this by having local, auditable code. Web apps don't.
That said, this project could be extended with something like a public certificate transparency log showing which versions of the code have been signed and making the code associated with each signed version available for third-party inspection, which would help plug this loophole. I haven't seen any proposals for how to do that with web standards yet, but I expect that some people have thought of a few of them. While it would be very different from the web we have today (no dynamic server-side templates, only APIs!), I think it would be a welcome innovation for web security