▲ 819 ▼ A federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut down (www.techspot.com) submitted 5 months ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 108 comments fedilink hide all child comments A 10-month Commerce Department probe concluded Meta could view all WhatsApp messages in unencrypted form
[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 24 points 5 months ago (2 children) There are dozens of us! Dozens! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) Is there an ELI5, foolproof, step-by-step tutorial? I tried Kleopatra on my own and was so completely befuddled; why is that, like, literally the only app out there in the whole world for PGP or GPG or whatever? Shouldn't there be dozens of such encoders? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] somenonewho@feddit.org 1 point 5 months ago It heavily depends in your usecase but if you want to use gpg to encrypt emails and dont want to do it all in the terminal i really recommend using Thunderbird it integrates gpg very well and makes it mostly seamless. Other than that afaik Kleopatra is the only standalone GUI for gpg simply because most of the time gpg is integrated in workflows (simply using the cli interface vor gpg libraries) and plain gpg for simple tex/file encryption/signing is just not a usecase.many people have permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) Is there an ELI5, foolproof, step-by-step tutorial? I tried Kleopatra on my own and was so completely befuddled; why is that, like, literally the only app out there in the whole world for PGP or GPG or whatever? Shouldn't there be dozens of such encoders? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] somenonewho@feddit.org 1 point 5 months ago It heavily depends in your usecase but if you want to use gpg to encrypt emails and dont want to do it all in the terminal i really recommend using Thunderbird it integrates gpg very well and makes it mostly seamless. Other than that afaik Kleopatra is the only standalone GUI for gpg simply because most of the time gpg is integrated in workflows (simply using the cli interface vor gpg libraries) and plain gpg for simple tex/file encryption/signing is just not a usecase.many people have permalink fedilink source parent
[–] somenonewho@feddit.org 1 point 5 months ago It heavily depends in your usecase but if you want to use gpg to encrypt emails and dont want to do it all in the terminal i really recommend using Thunderbird it integrates gpg very well and makes it mostly seamless. Other than that afaik Kleopatra is the only standalone GUI for gpg simply because most of the time gpg is integrated in workflows (simply using the cli interface vor gpg libraries) and plain gpg for simple tex/file encryption/signing is just not a usecase.many people have permalink fedilink source parent