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by LtWorf 79 days ago
Whatsapp "claims" to be e2e, but nobody knows for sure since its sources are closed.
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prmoustache 78 days ago
Still more secure than non encrypted email yet a lot of people still use email to send fairly sensitive data.
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account42 77 days ago
Email doesn't go through an app controlled by Facebook so I don't agree about your security assessment.
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FabHK 77 days ago
You don't know where your email goes through, and email for sure is not end to end encrypted.

WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol. Closed source code can be decompiled, open source does not magically give you better security properties.

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LtWorf 76 days ago
> WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol

claims to do so.

> open source does not magically give you better security properties.

Reproducible builds do, in fact I have no idea if you and I are running the same whatsapp at all.

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