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How can that be, aren't Instagram Dms end-to-end encrypted, curious on how they find these kind of messages
by thecaspercraft 11mo ago
How can that be, aren't Instagram Dms end-to-end encrypted, curious on how they find these kind of messages
- pxc 11mo agoThey make the app that stores the plaintext at each end... they don't need to decrypt your messages across the wire to read them.
- thecaspercraft 11mo agoAh I understand now, thank you. So they can actually read it just not in transit but from the app, isn't that a security violation?
- cadamsdotcom 11mo agoA what violation? I kid. But only sorta.
- thecaspercraft 11mo agoThey advertise e2e as something that is to secure your messages and no one can read it including them, just got surprised when I realized they can view all the messages before transit, I never even thought that that they can do that before encryption
- cadamsdotcom 11mo agoThey control the software doing the encryption & decryption - they could ship your private keys to themselves if they truly wanted to be evil. Who would know?
- krageon 11mo agoAll e2e encrypted apps can do this. It's the price you pay for a completely closed ecosystem that coddles you at every turn because you're too much of a little bean to know what real security is. Edit: this isn't a dig at you, it's a dig at how google and apple treat you
- thecaspercraft 11mo agoI didn't know that they are able to do this, now that I know it just makes perfect sense.