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by gravity_123
2330 days ago
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I use WhatsApp and generally trust Facebook when they talk about e2e (of course there will be bugs but Facebook has lots of eyes on them, are a huge public company with staffed security team, encryption has been tested in Brazil where they didn't have anything to hand over to the govt, have lots to lose by lying here and Metadata collection and WhatsApp business sound like a potential business). In my opinion the biggest issue is the backups. Everybody I know backs up the chats to icloud or Google drive (even if you don't your friends might) because it offers great convenience. These backups are not encrypted( well, encrypted with key with whatsapp) and hence is a weak link. In an e2e encryption system all we need is one weak link and this is imo the one. Hopefully whatsapp or Apple or Google solves it elegantly without too much hit on user convenience. |
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