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The impossibility of banning encrypted communication?
(news.ycombinator.com)
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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whatsapp is not meaningfully e2ee
please share
It's closed source. So it's impossible to verify Facebook doesn't have you pkey and goes MitM.
They say they don't, but you can only take their word for it.
i guess that fb does store keys after all; they do respond to police requests
i also found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/v7tsou/is_whatsapp_lying_about_its_endtoend_encryption/
In what sense? It's encryption is based on that of Signal. Are you referring to metadata? I also avoid whatsapp, but not because of the encryption.
Even if it's based on Signal's encryption, it doesn't mean it's implemented as it is in Signal.
Exactly.
They generate the keys, that's all you need to know in order to know that it isn't secure.