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This is what a layman would assume happens from Meta’s WhatsApp advertising. They show the e2e process, and have the message entirely unreadable by anyone but t
by OtherShrezzing 9mo ago
This is what a layman would assume happens from Meta’s WhatsApp advertising. They show the e2e process, and have the message entirely unreadable by anyone but the phone owner.
- kevin_thibedeau 9mo agoe2e means unreadable by a middleman. That is a small inconvenience if you can readily compromise an endpoint.
- Almondsetat 9mo agoPeople keep talking about e2ee as if it was some brain-to-brain encoding that truly allowed only the recipient person to decrypt the message
- dijit 9mo agobecause it used to be that the ends and the middlemen were different entities. In the universe where they are the same entity (walled-gardens) there is only the middleman. In such cases you either trust them or you don’t, anything more is not required because they can compromise their own endpoints in a way you can not detect.