@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 5 months agoThe EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agendawww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1447cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1447external-linkThe EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agendawww.techradar.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 5 months agomessage-square81fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•5 months agoI actually don’t really understand how they would do this. Isn’t WhatsApp end to end by protocol? They’d have to share messages at the client side. What a mess.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•5 months agoThey want to force WhatsApp to scan your private messages on your device.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•5 months agoEnd-to-end encryption is worthless, when it’s done by a company like meta in a closed source project.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•5 months agoIf you own the client, you own the message, agreed.
minus-squarerandombulletlinkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoEnd to end encrypted with keys stored on Meta’s servers. Just kidding but I’m sure there’s a backdoor somewhere.
I actually don’t really understand how they would do this. Isn’t WhatsApp end to end by protocol? They’d have to share messages at the client side. What a mess.
They want to force WhatsApp to scan your private messages on your device.
End-to-end encryption is worthless, when it’s done by a company like meta in a closed source project.
If you own the client, you own the message, agreed.
End to end encrypted with keys stored on Meta’s servers.
Just kidding but I’m sure there’s a backdoor somewhere.