@schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months agoThe EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agendawww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1492file-textcross-posted to: europe@feddit.org
arrow-up1492external-linkThe EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agendawww.techradar.com@schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square93fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: europe@feddit.org
minus-square@sunbeam60@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglish8•4 months 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@x00z@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish16•4 months agoThey want to force WhatsApp to scan your private messages on your device.
minus-square@rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish6•4 months agoEnd-to-end encryption is worthless, when it’s done by a company like meta in a closed source project.
minus-square@sunbeam60@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglish4•4 months agoIf you own the client, you own the message, agreed.
minus-square@randombullet@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish3•4 months 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.