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They make the app that stores the plaintext at each end... they don't need to decrypt your messages across the wire to read them.
by pxc 11mo ago
They 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.