Comment by OtherShrezzing
Comment by OtherShrezzing 18 hours ago
This is what a layman would assume happens from Meta’s WhatsApp advertising. They show the e2e process, and have the message entirely unreadable by anyone but the phone owner.
Comment by OtherShrezzing 18 hours ago
This is what a layman would assume happens from Meta’s WhatsApp advertising. They show the e2e process, and have the message entirely unreadable by anyone but the phone owner.
People keep talking about e2ee as if it was some brain-to-brain encoding that truly allowed only the recipient person to decrypt the message
because it used to be that the ends and the middlemen were different entities.
In the universe where they are the same entity (walled-gardens) there is only the middleman.
In such cases you either trust them or you don’t, anything more is not required because they can compromise their own endpoints in a way you can not detect.
e2e means unreadable by a middleman. That is a small inconvenience if you can readily compromise an endpoint.