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WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History (medium.com)
submitted 4 days ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1183337

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[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago

“We kill people based on metadata.”

[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago

WhatsApp — by default, on most devices, for most users — automatically backs up your entire chat history to iCloud(iOS) or Google Drive (Android). This backup contains your decrypted messages. The plaintext. The thing the Signal Protocol just worked so hard to protect.

Stones in glass houses from Durov here. They don't even have encryption...

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

AI slop

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

What are you going on about? It reads perfectly fine. Are we just throwing spurious accusations around now?

[–] voxel@feddit.org -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The title is misleading.

[–] Dionysus@leminal.space 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The comment is mislabeled.

[–] voxel@feddit.org -2 points 4 days ago

Why are you telling lies? Have you even read the article?