@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 6 days agoThe EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agendawww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1496arrow-down16file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1490arrow-down1external-linkThe EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agendawww.techradar.com@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 6 days agomessage-square93fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•6 days 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@x00zlinkEnglish16•6 days agoThey want to force WhatsApp to scan your private messages on your device.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•6 days agoEnd-to-end encryption is worthless, when it’s done by a company like meta in a closed source project.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•5 days agoIf you own the client, you own the message, agreed.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•6 days 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.